Admiral Lord West “I was told in 2002 we were invading Iraq“

On the eve of the release of the Chilcot Report, Lord Admiral West, former Commander-in-Chief of Fleet of the British Royal Navy in the lead up to the Iraq war, revealed to Channel 4 News that in July 2002, a full eight months before British Parliamentary approval for the invasion of Iraq, he was told “by someone very high we would be invading Iraq“. “You don’t wake up in your bath in the morning and say let’s get ready for war. Someone told me. I know someone told me“ Lord West was not invited