Tony Blair must take responsibility for any intelligence failings identified in the Butler Report, the former head of the Joint Intelligence Committee says.
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"The buck stops there and I don't think that the political layer in any country can escape the consequences of a systemic failure," [Dame Pauline Neville-Jones] said.
She refused to say whether Mr Blair should resign if the report found he had been wrong, but said: "He is making a distinction between what he genuinely believed and what turns out to be the case so he is at least open to the accusation of incompetence."
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Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Saturday the former foreign secretary Robin Cook said the suggestion that there had been a "global" intelligence failure was "garbage"
"Nobody except Washington and London thought that Saddam was such a threat that we had immediately to go to war," he said.
"The governments had made up their mind that Saddam had weapons and must be a threat, they had made up their mind they were going to go to war.
Also, the Coalition of the Willing took a small hit as the Phillipines announced that it will withdraw their 50 troops as scheduled in August.