Learning From the Errors of Iraq

The long-awaited Chilcot report on Britain's role in the Iraq War, despite its many thousands of pages, isn't going to be the last word on that painful subject. But it ought at least to stifle one main line of criticism of the government then in power -- that Prime Minister Tony Blair and his team lied to the country and acted in bad faith.

For more than a decade, that charge has dominated British discussion of the war. Sir John Chilcot's exhaustive report does not support it.