Iraq war inquiry

In the past week this has been announced. There are probably a few motivations for it:

• Bad poll ratings, and general poor performance of the government. As a friend of mine said if Brown was 20 points ahead in the polls we probably would not have an inquiry.
• Make some of the decision makers take account for their actions. It is an open secret that we went to war on the flimsiest of evidence.

In some ways it is not a bad thing to review the decision making, but it will be at great expense and I am sure many of the outcomes will already be obvious.

The behind closed doors aspect is a little weak, and the comparison back to the Falklands inquiry is bogus (this was also held in private). The world has changed too much for the public to trust an inquiry performed like that.