In the UK House of Commons report released July 2016, “When UK policy towards Iraq was formally reviewed and agreed by the Ministerial Committee on Defence and Overseas Policy (DOP) in May 1999, the objectives towards Iraq were defined as: “… in the short term, to reduce the threat Saddam poses to the region including by eliminating his weapons of mass destruction (WMD) programmes; and, in the longer term, to reintegrate a territorially intact Iraq as a law?abiding member of the international community.””
– House of Commons UK, The Report of the Iraq Inquiry Executive Summary, House of Commons UK, 7/6/16 Dated from Parliament.uk