<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">The question now is less what the Bushes pere et fils did, but what Obama and Clinton are doing and will do.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Let the dead bury their dead … what's past is prologue, what to come / In yours and my discharge.</div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 6, 2016, at 8:49 PM, Karen Aram via Peace-discuss <<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" class="">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Thank you Stuart. The question for Americans to ask, is when will we have our "Chilcot" report, flawed though it is, seven years that it took to complete, too little, too late? </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Instead we are on the edge of allowing, by way of "democratic elections" many of those who should be prosecuted, to continue in power.<br class=""></div><br class=""><br class=""><div style="" class=""><hr tabindex="-1" style="display: inline-block; width: 1116.21875px;" class=""><div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr" class=""><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><b class="">From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Stuart Levy <<a href="mailto:stuartnlevy@gmail.com" class="">stuartnlevy@gmail.com</a>><br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Wednesday, July 6, 2016 3:35 PM<br class=""><b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Karen Aram; Peace-discuss List; Peace Discuss<br class=""><b class="">Cc:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Stuart Levy<br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [Peace-discuss] Excellent critique of the Chilcot Report, by Jeremy Corbin</font><div class=""> </div></div><div class="">Excellent - and terribly sad. But good for Corbyn for speaking out. And thanks, Karen, for forwarding this.<br class=""><br class=""><div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/6/16 2:32 PM, Karen Aram via Peace-discuss wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><div class="text_exposed_root text_exposed" id="id_577d5b3734d245648154229"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">"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.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">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.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">The war was not in any way as Sir John Chilcot says a “last resort”.</div><span class="text_exposed_hide">...</span><div class="text_exposed_show"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">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.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">It led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people and the displacement of millions of refugees.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">It devastated Iraq’s infrastructure and society.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">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.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">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.</div><div class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">By any measure, the invasion and occupation of Iraq has been for many a catastrophe." Jeremy Corbyn today, in the House of Commons.</div></div></div></div><br class=""></div><br class=""><fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset><br class=""><pre class="">_______________________________________________
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