Major General Tim Cross, the only UK military official appointed to help plan for the aftermath of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, says he concluded a half-hour conversation with Prime Minister Tony Blair by warning “in so many words, I had no doubt we will win in the military. I do not believe we are ready for postwar Iraq.”
HIs statement was made during testimony to the Iraq Inquiry Committee chaired by Sir John Chilcot.
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