UK Report on Iraq Invasion Doesn't Flatter the US

A damning report in the UK is making the rounds. It claims the US "took UK's Iraq invasion involvement for granted" despite repeated warning from the UK high command that they were not simply going to show up when and where they were told.

George Bush's administration appeared impervious to warnings from Whitehall that British forces may not have been involved in the invasion of Iraq, the senior military officer at the time has said.
Admiral Lord Boyce, who was chief of defence staff from 2001 to 2003, told Sir John Chilcot's Iraq inquiry that American officials were equally sceptical about British demands for a second UN resolution.
"No matter how many times you said to senior American offices and indeed to Mr Rumsfeld we were not committing our forces until we'd been through the proper UN process, and in the latter days had been through parliament as well, there was a complete reluctance to believe that," Admiral Boyce said.
"It was a case of 'yes, I know you've got to say that, but come the day you'll be there' - [that] was the attitude."
Admiral Boyce was appearing alongside Sir Kevin Tebbitt, the permanent secretary at the Ministry of Defence from 1998 to 2005, as the pair answered questions about military preparations for war.
Sir Kevin agreed with the claim from Baroness Usha Prashar that George Bush's administration were hearing the "yes but not the buts".
"There were different groups at work in Washington with different views," Sir Kevin said.

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