Godsiff refuted linking the 2009 inquiry with current actions against Islamic State.
"It is a separate issue. Yvette Cooper can talk for herself, but these are two separate issues. The Chilcot report is about the sequence of events leading up to the invasion of Iraq, and military action that has been taken subsequently has got nothing whatsoever to do with that," Godsiff stated.
The long delay in the publication of Sir John Chilcot's report on Britain's role in the 2003 Iraq War is a disgrace, a UK Labour lawmaker believes.
"I think there will be overwhelming support for it to be published across all sides of the house, it should be published," Roger Godsiff said.
Though the "Maxwellisation process," which, according to head of the investigation Sir John Chilcot, is holding up publication, is lengthy and reasonable, it has been six years since the inquiry was launched.
"The reasons why the report is not being published is because certain individuals whose names appear in that report I suspect, their legal teams are arguing over every single dot, every single comma, every single nuance in report," Godsiff said.
Godsiff claims that the legal wrangling provides two inevitable results. First, it serves the interests of those named in the report, and second, it allows lawyers to charge more money because the process requires more time. The lawmaker suggested that Chilcot and his team, while working on the report, are having a 'field day" making extra money.
"So they don't have a particular incentive to stop the thing. The lawyers are making money, Chilcot and his team are making money out of it, and those who are paying the lawyers to delay the thing, are achieving their purpose of delaying the report," the politician said.
The so-called Maxwellisation process gives those named in the report time to prepare for and respond to allegations prior to a general release.
In March 2003, a US-led coalition that initially comprised the United Kingdom, Australia and Poland invaded Iraq, justifying the incursion by claiming Baghdad's then-leader Saddam Hussein supported terrorism and possessed weapons of mass destruction.
Following years of controversy, in 2009, then-British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called for an inquiry, subsequently launched by Chilcot.
The Iraq War led to the death of over 100,000 civilians between 2003-2011, according to the Iraq Body Count database.
