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

[Carl G. Estabrook]

But so long as the issue can be seen as Trump’s 'fascism,’ Hillary’s bankers and bombers needn’t worry - or care that Trump criticizes them.


> On Jul 6, 2016, at 9:11 PM, Carl G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
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> The question now is less what the Bushes pere et fils did, but what Obama and Clinton are doing and will do.
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> Let the dead bury their dead … what's past is prologue, what to come / In yours and my discharge.
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>> On Jul 6, 2016, at 8:49 PM, Karen Aram via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net <mailto:peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:
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>> 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? 
>> Instead we are on the edge of allowing, by way of "democratic elections" many of those who should be prosecuted, to continue in power.
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>> From: Stuart Levy <stuartnlevy at gmail.com <mailto:stuartnlevy at gmail.com>>
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 6, 2016 3:35 PM
>> To: Karen Aram; Peace-discuss List; Peace Discuss
>> Cc: Stuart Levy
>> Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Excellent critique of the Chilcot Report, by Jeremy Corbin
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>> Excellent - and terribly sad.   But good for Corbyn for speaking out.   And thanks, Karen, for forwarding this.
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>> 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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