The Report
of the Iraq Inquiry
UK
commercial
interests .........................................................................................
439
The UK
‘Vision for Iraq and the Iraqi
People’ ..........................................................
440
Growing
pressure for Ministerial
decisions ...................................................................
444
Mr Blair’s
meeting on post-conflict issues, 6 March 2003 ......................................
448
The UK plan
for Phase
IV .......................................................................................
458
Treasury
discussions with the
IMF ...................................................................
463
DFID update
on humanitarian
assistance ...............................................................
464
DIS Red
Team report on retaining the support of the Iraqi
people ......................... 465
UK military
and humanitarian co-ordination in the
South ........................................ 468
Mr Straw’s
statement to the House of Commons, 10 March
2003 ................... 471
DIS report:
‘Basra: Post Saddam
Governance’ ................................................
472
DFID’s
Humanitarian Strategy and Immediate Assistance
Plan ...................... 473
Extending
the Oil-for-Food
programme ..................................................................
478
Plans and
preparations on the eve of the
invasion .......................................................
478
The UK
military
plan ...............................................................................................
486
UK
objectives for post-conflict Iraq .........................................................................
491
The Azores
Summit, 16 March
2003 ......................................................................
493
Post-Azores
concerns .............................................................................................
497
Parliamentary
debate on Iraq, 18 March
2003 .......................................................
507
Revised
arrangements for Ministerial discussion of
Iraq ........................................ 512
Mr Blair’s
conversation with President Bush, 19 March
2003 ................................ 513
Prime
Minister’s Questions, 19 March
2003 ...........................................................
513
Security
Council debate on Iraq, 19 March
2003 ....................................................
514
Straw/Hoon
joint minute to
Mr Blair ........................................................................
515
The
invasion ..................................................................................................................
521
The role of
the
UN ..................................................................................................
524
MOD update
on Phase IV
planning ........................................................................
527
Draft UK
post-conflict objectives .............................................................................
530
Mr Blair’s
meeting with President Bush, Camp David,
26 and 27 March 2003 ...... 534
Witness
comments ........................................................................................................
540
Conclusions ..................................................................................................................
551
What was
known on the eve of the
invasion ...........................................................
551
The failure
to plan or prepare for known
risks ........................................................
561
The
planning process and
decision-making ...........................................................
563
308