Sir Richard Dearlove · Evolved on iraq · 2345 days apart

Then · 11 October 2019

“my advice to Blair, which he didn't follow, because I'm not a policy guy, but I said, look, what we should have because bits of the Iraqi army were not particularly contaminated by Saddam Hussein.”

Now · 13 March 2026

“I mean, the huge mistake that Bremer made in Iraq on which we were not consulted, I was chief at the time, was to disband the Iraqi military.”

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