U.S. blocks report telling how UK went to war with Iraq
A draft report challenged the official story of the UK’s entry into the Iraq war, mainly related to exchanges with then-PM Tony Blair and former president George W. Bush. Four-year inquiry into UK’s role in Iraq war by British government blocked by White House and U.S. State Department officials The United States is behind the delaying a key report’s release showing how the UK went to war with Iraq, London-based daily The Independent reported on Wednesday.White House and State Department officials are behind the blocking of the four-year Chilcot inquiry, which the UK’s Cabinet Office has been criticized for halting.The newspaper saw drafts of the report earlier this year which challenged the official story of the UK’s entry into the Iraq war, mainly related to exchanges with then-PM Tony Blair and former president George W. Bush. A diplomatic source quoted by the independent said that the U.S. is “highly possessive when documents relate to the presence of