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Excellent - and terribly sad. But good for Corbyn for speaking
out. And thanks, Karen, for forwarding this.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/6/16 2:32 PM, Karen Aram via
Peace-discuss wrote:<br>
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<p>"Mr Speaker, the decision to invade and occupy Iraq in
March 2003 was the most significant foreign policy decision
taken by a British government in modern times.</p>
<p>It divided this House and set the government of the day
against a majority of the British people as well as against
the weight of global opinion.</p>
<p>The war was not in any way as Sir John Chilcot says a “last
resort”.</p>
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<p>Frankly, it was an act of military aggression launched on
a false pretext as the inquiry accepts and has long been
regarded as illegal by the overwhelming weight of
international legal opinion.</p>
<p>It led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people
and the displacement of millions of refugees.</p>
<p>It devastated Iraq’s infrastructure and society.</p>
<p>The occupation fostered a lethal sectarianism – as the
report makes clear – that turned into a civil war. Instead
of protecting security at home or abroad, the war fuelled
and spread terrorism across the region.</p>
<p>Sunday’s suicide bomb attack in Baghdad which killed over
250 people, the deadliest so far, was carried out by a
group whose origins lie in the aftermath of the invasion.</p>
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<p>By any measure, the invasion and occupation of Iraq has
been for many a catastrophe." Jeremy Corbyn today, in
the House of Commons.</p>
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