Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war - live

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/blog/2009/nov/24/chilcot-inquiry-iraq-war
Follow the action as inquiry into one of the most contentious decisions of modern times begins hearing evidence

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12.50pm: Ricketts says that "war on terror" was never a British phrase. He remembers ministers being "not very impressed by it".

12.46pm: Lady Prashar says there seems to have been a "deliberate policy of ambiguity". (I think she means ambiguity between containment and regime change.)

Sir Lawrence Freedman says we now know that the Americans were starting to discuss toppling Saddam at the end of 2001. Did the British not pick this up?

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11.12am: The Press Association has done a good job of getting a story out of the early exchanges in the hearing. Here is the opening of the story filed by Gavin Cordon and Sam Marsden.

Elements of the new US administration of President George Bush were already discussing "regime change" in Iraq two years before the invasion of 2003, the official inquiry into the war was told today.