Woodland, WA
July 7, 2016
by Rich Scheck
After seven years, the Chilcot Report on the Iraq war has finally
been issued and it is devastating.
All you really need to know is what UK Labor Leader Jeremy
Corbyn had to say about it: the war in Iraq started in March,
2003 was an “act of military aggression launched on a false
pretext!” http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/
The Nuremberg standard created by the WWII victors to punish
the Nazi leaders who started the conflagration that killed countless
millions of people makes war criminals of those who violate the rules
of international law by committing crimes against humanity.
Tony Blair and George Bush stand in the arena of global public
opinion now as formally responsible for the atrocities they began
by invading Iraq.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article45056.htm
Those like Hillary Clinton who enthusiastically backed such action
by their vote and who have subsequently supported the ongoing
military action in the region that has cost hundreds of thousands of
mostly innocent lives while destroying several countries must share
the responsibility for this ongoing catastrophe.
The BREXIT vote to leave the EU as well as the rise of populist
movements in the US led by Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders
represent an inchoate response to the imperial overreach these
foreign policy failures represent.
Rather than a purely xenophobic and nationalistic response to
current crises, wanting to stop these wasteful and criminal wars
are acts of sanity challenging the integrity and wisdom of our
current leaders.
It remains to be seen if Corbyn can translate the public’s disgust
with the excessive costs of these overseas adventures into an
electoral victory by becoming the new Prime Minister.
It also remains to be seen if Trump, who was very effective
using similar arguments in the primaries to dispatch Jeb Bush
and other Republican hawks, can repeat this approach against
his general election rival, Hillary Clinton.
Even more than her other scandals including the recent server
controversy, the former First Lady and Secretary of State’s
impeccable neo-con credentials makes her vulnerable to the
kind of in your face bold attack Trump is famous for.
http://theantimedia.org/hillary-will-do-this-if-she-wins/
It is my sense that had Bernie Sanders chosen to go after
her more aggressively, he would be the nominee today. And
in light of the vote fraud allegations and DNC manipulations in
favor of Mrs. Clinton, it is not even clear that she actually won
the nomination as most assume.
https://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=41678
Now that we have finally heard from the Brits about Iraq, we
will have to wait to see how much fall-out there is from the
Chilcot Inquiry.
Whatever transpires in the months ahead leading up to the
the November 8th election, history is likely to say some very
nasty things about those who launched these wars of aggression
nearly 60 years after Nuremberg.
The trials were held in an effort to deter as well as hold accountable
those who perpetrated the most serious of criminal offenses: the
launching of unnecessary and costly wars of aggression that lead to
immense human suffering and crimes against humanity.
With the legal and political system in such disarray here in the US,
it behooves the American people to step up boldly and say NO to
those responsible for these misdeeds and the foreign policy failures
they spawned.
Other references:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article45053.htm