Chilcot: Jeremy Corbyn calls Iraq War 'an act of military aggression launched on a false pretext'

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Source: Independent.UK

Jeremy Corbyn has apologised on behalf of the Labour party for the decision to invade Iraq in 2003, following the publication of the Chilcot report into the Iraq War.

The Labour leader said the war was "an act of military aggression launched on a false pretext", and described the aftermath of invasion as a "colonial style occupation".

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Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/chilcot-inquiry-jeremy-corbyn-calls-iraq-war-an-act-of-military-aggression-launched-on-a-false-a7122731.html

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And there it is.

[choie]

1. Good for him!

Too bad our own politicians won't do the same!

[liberalmike27]

7. Don Siegelman Said the Same

Karl Rove made a call, and they put him in jail, and he's still there.

[90-percent]

12. Thanks for mentioning Don Siegelman

A political prisoner in 2016 America. Shameful, especially when Rove still walks free and is still accepted in his Oligarchic circles. Just one of many modern injustices we all acclimate to, eventually.

-90% Jimmy

[Orrex]

2. He's correct, of course.

And many of us here have been calling it the same since before we invaded.

[bemildred]

3. I have always considered it to be exactly that, and even on those terms it was stupid to do. nt

[ChairmanAgnostic]

5. Except our media giants. Total silence there.

[Helen Borg]

4. Which is the fucking truth, damnit!

[bigwillq]

6. #facts

A kick for the truth

[jalan48]

8. I wish our own Democratic politicians had said this thirteen years ago.

We would have saved hundreds of thousands of lives and trillions of dollars.

[uawchild]

9. He can't be right, we are the good guys

Besides, we have already developed a new pretext, oops, I mean justified reason to invade other countries. It's called The Right to Protect people from their own government by overthrowing that government. It's our justification for bombing Libya and turning it into a failed state and its our justification for arming jihadist moderate Rebels in Syria's bloody civil war. We can just retroactively apply the excuse, oops, I mean justification to our invasion of Iraq.

Forget international law and sovereign states, we the US have the right to protect people anywhere in the world even if it kills them and destroys their country.

[LuvNewcastle]

11. Not to mention Central

and South America. We allow them to elect their leaders, but if their leaders don't do what we like, we back rebels to overthrow the government. I don't know how many times we've done that shit.

[kacekwl]

10. When does the dozens of

congressional investigations begin on this matter ?

[area51]

13. Now why can't

Tony bLIAR, Cheney & Kissinger all be put in the same prison cell?

[bemildred]

14. I was thinking it might finally be a good use for Gitmo. nt