As the Chilcot report today gave its damning verdict agaiinst Tony Blair and his government that led us into war in 2003, we look back at our coverage from the time
Ann Stenhouse
20:54, 06 Jul 2016Updated 09:22, 07 Jul 2016
Our tongue in cheek Valentine's Day front page begs Blair and Bush to make love not war(Image: Daily Mirror)
On the day the Chilcot Report was finally published and grieving families branded Tony Blair the “world’s worst terrorist” for taking the country into a bloody and unnecessary war, we look back at how the conflict was covered on the front pages of the Daily Mirror
The Iraq War - which began on March 20, 2003 - lasted over six years, claimed the lives of 179 UK personnel, more than 100,000 Iraqis, and and cost more than £9billion.
The Daily Mirror was opposed to the conflict from the start. In the words of Mirror columnist Ros Wynnne-Jones: "The paper’s opposition to war in Iraq was based on several things, but mostly the realisation that it would lead to the death of hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians and cost the lives of British troops.
"It felt more like American revenge for 9/11 than a plan to change the political landscape.
We supplied piles of placards for the February 2003 Stop the War march and vocally supported the anti-war campaign, but to no avail.
And as the front pages below show, we weren't the only ones opposed to this chaotic war that we were led into by flawed intelligence.
On February 15 2003, the day of the anti-war march in London, our hard hitting page called for action(Image: Daily Mirror)
The Monday after the march we told Blair to listen to the nation(Image: )
This March 7 cover shows disgust at how Blair had betrayed our trust(Image: )
On March 11 we covered war rebel Clare Short as she threatened to leave the Cabinet(Image: Daily Mirror)
On March 14, as war edged closer, we begged Blair not to do it(Image: Daily Mirror)
We had to admit by March 18 that war was inevitable(Image: Daily Mirror)
On the day the bombardment began our headline says it all(Image: Daily Mirror)
This picture illustrated the terrible destruction wrought by 'shock and awe' on Baghdad(Image: Daily Mirror)
This front page shows the human faces of the Iraq war(Image: )
Our front page from Anton Antonowicz, inside Baghdad as the Americans approached(Image: )
The scale of the bombardment was astonishing(Image: )
With the Marines as British went on attack in Basra(Image: )
How we covered the fall of Baghdad on April 10(Image: )
This is a damning front page from later in 2003, when we realised the WMD claim was false(Image: )