There is no new information in the report published by Sir John Chilcot. But the fact that the occupation of Iraq was officially reported on by a state that took a part in the occupation is significant. There are two crucial points that come to the forefront in the report. First of all, the main motive of the occupation, which was on the basis of intelligence reports of the supposed threat to regional peace and stability posed by Saddam Hussein's holding chemical weapons, came out as fallacy at best and deceit at worst. Secondly, it is openly admitted that the wholesale war against Iraq was unnecessary, as the first Gulf war had already limited the country.

The report also states that the death of a certain number of British soldiers in the occupation of Iraq was due to the political hastiness and military negligence behind the rationale of the occupying powers. It seems that while more than 400 thousand Iraqi people died and millions of Iraqi people were forced to migrate while the country itself was devastated, the U.K. worries about their military losses. Human life is invaluable, and the death of thousands of lives makes us all sad in the face of such devastation.

Former U.S. general and secretary of state, Colin Powell, who blamed President George W. Bush's administration of deception, exposed the fallacious intelligence reports that led to the Iraqi occupation. Not only those big lies and the gloomy death toll, but also the lack of purpose and the succeeding devastation caused by the Iraqi occupation led the American public to reinterpret it as a disgrace for American foreign policy. Indeed, it is true that the trauma created by the Bush administration lie behind the ineffective and unsuccessful foreign policy of the President Barack Obama's administration.

When Iraq was first occupied, it was thought that Iraqis would welcome U.S. soldiers with flowers of solidarity and friendship. Such optimism turned out to be deluded, since Iraq today, controlled by the US and Iran, makes Iraqis long for Hussein. Every single day, hundreds of Iraqis continue to die in a country in chaos.

After the completion of the military occupation, the U.S. still could not prevent terrorist attacks by al-Qaida on Shiites while Iran sent its own Shiite militias to Iraq, which are just was as ferocious as al-Qaeda. Due to the inherent hatred toward Iraq that emerged from the devastating 10-year Iraq-Iran War, Iran aimed to keep Iraq in chaos in the short term and turn it into a predominantly Shiite country in the long run. Former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's ineffective and visionless government aimed at excluding the Sunnis from the system, instead of stabilizing the country and thus prepared the ground for the proliferation of terrorist organizations like the al-Qaeda and DAESH. Indeed, the greatest threat to al-Qaeda was not the U.S. troops or Iran's Shiite militia, but the Sunni militia established under the leadership of the U.S. from the Sunni tribes and known as the "Sunni awakening" or "Sahve." Yet the vengeful sectarianism of the Iraqi government against the Sunni population led the Sunni tribes to stray from the plan of the Baghdad administration.

After the U.S. occupation, therefore, the Iraqi government fell into the hands of Shiites for whom the task should have been to stabilize and rehabilitate the country in a patriotic manner with the financial support coming from Iraqi petrol. As a totalitarian state in its domestic realm, Iran decided to leave Iraq to suffer the chaos wrought by al-Qaeda and DAESH and in the pretext of fighting these terrorist organizations, Iran forced the Iraqi people to choose either DAESH or their Shiite militia, which would ensure a Shiite Iraq in the long term. Avenging the former Iran-Iraq War, Iran seems to be the real winner of the chaos and the Iraqi people should be aware of the fact that Iran threatens not only the Sunni population of Iraq, but the country as a whole.