{"id":42263,"date":"2016-07-07T13:05:09","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T17:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=42263"},"modified":"2016-07-07T13:05:09","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T17:05:09","slug":"the-chilcot-report-iraq-a-war-of-aggression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=42263","title":{"rendered":"The Chilcot Report: Iraq A War of Aggression!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Woodland, WA<br \/>\nJuly 7, 2016<\/p>\n<p>by Rich Scheck<\/p>\n<p>After seven years, the Chilcot Report on the Iraq war has finally<br \/>\nbeen issued and it is devastating.<\/p>\n<p>All you really need to know is what UK Labor Leader Jeremy<br \/>\nCorbyn had to say about it: the war in Iraq started in March,<br \/>\n2003 was an &#8220;act of military aggression launched on a false<br \/>\npretext!&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/\">http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Nuremberg standard created by the WWII victors to punish<br \/>\nthe Nazi leaders who started the conflagration that killed countless<br \/>\nmillions of people makes war criminals of those who violate the rules<br \/>\nof international law by committing crimes against humanity.<\/p>\n<p>Tony Blair and George Bush stand in the arena of global public<br \/>\nopinion now as formally responsible for the atrocities they began<br \/>\nby invading Iraq.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article45056.htm\">http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article45056.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Those like Hillary Clinton who enthusiastically backed such action<br \/>\nby their vote and who have subsequently supported the ongoing<br \/>\nmilitary action in the region that has cost hundreds of thousands of<br \/>\nmostly innocent lives while destroying several countries must share<br \/>\nthe responsibility for this ongoing catastrophe.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>BREXIT<\/em> vote to leave the EU as well as the rise of populist<br \/>\nmovements in the US led by Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders<br \/>\nrepresent an inchoate response to the imperial overreach these<br \/>\nforeign policy failures represent.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than a purely xenophobic and nationalistic response to<br \/>\ncurrent crises, wanting to stop these wasteful and criminal wars<br \/>\nare acts of sanity challenging the integrity and wisdom of our<br \/>\ncurrent leaders.<\/p>\n<p>It remains to be seen if Corbyn can translate the public&#8217;s disgust<br \/>\nwith the excessive costs of these overseas adventures into an<br \/>\nelectoral victory by becoming the new Prime Minister.<\/p>\n<p>It also remains to be seen if Trump, who was very effective<br \/>\nusing similar arguments in the primaries to dispatch Jeb Bush<br \/>\nand other Republican hawks, can repeat this approach against<br \/>\nhis general election rival, Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>Even more than her other scandals including the recent server<br \/>\ncontroversy, the former First Lady and Secretary of State&#8217;s<br \/>\nimpeccable neo-con credentials makes her vulnerable to the<br \/>\nkind of in your face bold attack Trump is famous for.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/theantimedia.org\/hillary-will-do-this-if-she-wins\/\">http:\/\/theantimedia.org\/hillary-will-do-this-if-she-wins\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is my sense that had Bernie Sanders chosen to go after<br \/>\nher more aggressively, he would be the nominee today. And<br \/>\nin light of the vote fraud allegations and DNC manipulations in<br \/>\nfavor of Mrs. Clinton, it is not even clear that she actually won<br \/>\nthe nomination as most assume.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=41678\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=41678<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now that we have finally heard from the Brits about Iraq, we<br \/>\nwill have to wait to see how much fall-out there is from the<br \/>\nChilcot Inquiry.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever transpires in the months ahead leading up to the<br \/>\nthe November 8th election, history is likely to say some very<br \/>\nnasty things about those who launched these wars of aggression<br \/>\nnearly 60 years after Nuremberg.<\/p>\n<p>The trials were held in an effort to deter as well as hold accountable<br \/>\nthose who perpetrated the most serious of criminal offenses: the<br \/>\nlaunching of unnecessary and costly wars of aggression that lead to<br \/>\nimmense human suffering and crimes against humanity.<\/p>\n<p>With the legal and political system in such disarray here in the US,<br \/>\nit behooves the American people to step up boldly and say NO to<br \/>\nthose responsible for these misdeeds and the foreign policy failures<br \/>\nthey spawned.<\/p>\n<p>Other references:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article45053.htm\">http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article45053.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article45049.htm\">http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article45049.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article8757.htm\">http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article8757.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}