Tony Blair will be in court on Friday in the long awaited appearance of the former Prime Minister in the Iraq Inquiry.

There has been many discussions on the questions that Tony Blair will face in the inquiry.

Here are some of the questions he is likely to face:
1. At what point did he commit British troops to join a US-led invasion of Iraq?
2. Was he always committed to the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, regardless of whether Iraq had weapons of mass destruction?
3. Was the intelligence about Iraq’s supposed WMD doctored in order to make the case for war?
4. Was the attorney general, Lord Goldsmith, pressurised into declaring that military action was legal?
5. Did he do enough to prepare for the aftermath of the invasion?
6. Did he provide sufficient resources for British forces?

There are many conspiracy’s going around the Internet regarding these issues in the

Iraq inquiry

(Chilcot inquiry) but never-the-less Tony Blair has always stayed beside his decisions to invade Iraq.

There have been much focus on a meeting between Blair and George Bush in April 2002 at the former American president’s Texas ranch in Crawford. What was said in the meetings will be unknown as only the two were present but it was said by Sir Christopher Meyer who was the British ambassador to Washington at the time of the meeting that a deal was “signed in blood” on the night.

There have been much arguments about the reasons why the UK went to war? As many people argue that if the invasion went through just because Iran can have a regime change would be illegal under international law.

Whilst much of the data given to Blair agreed upon Iraq having weapons of mass destruction, the fact that non was found in the country created much controversy. It was also said that some of the intellegience were either ”sporadic” and ”patchy”.

However key figures acknowledged mistakes in the way the intelligence was presented in the now notorious Iraq dossier.

Tony Blair was also criticized for the lack of planning that was organised for the aftermath of the war. Many witnesses referred to lack of planning which saw Iraq spiral into violence. Major General Tim Cross has said that he even confronted Blair personally to explain that more preparation was required and that the war should be delayed.

Regardless of the outcome of the Iraq inquiry, thousands of soldiers, British and American have died in a war which is full of controversy.

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