[Peace-discuss] Excellent critique of the Chilcot Report, by Jeremy Corbin

[Stuart Levy]

Excellent - and terribly sad.   But good for Corbyn for speaking out.  
And thanks, Karen, for forwarding this.

On 7/6/16 2:32 PM, Karen Aram via Peace-discuss wrote:
>
> "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.
>
> 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.
>
> The war was not in any way as Sir John Chilcot says a “last resort”.
>
> ...
>
> 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.
>
> It led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people and the
> displacement of millions of refugees.
>
> It devastated Iraq’s infrastructure and society.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> By any measure, the invasion and occupation of Iraq has been for many
> a catastrophe." Jeremy Corbyn today, in the House of Commons.
>
>
>
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