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Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.ourcoffs.org.au)'s status on Thursday, 07-Jul-2016 07:35:42 UTC Matthew Davidson

#Chilcot obliges the Blairites who recently resigned from cabinet to surrender their seats as well. 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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1. Jeremy Corbyn has responded to Chilcot - but didn't mention Tony Blair
  
  from The Independent
  
  The Iraq War was an “act of military aggression, launched on a false pretext” and the “colonial style occupation” that followed led to the rise of ISIS, Jeremy Corbyn has said in response to the publication of the Chilcot Report. Speaking in the House of Commons, the Labour leader said that the war had “long been regarded as illegal by the overwhelming weight of international legal opinion” but refrained from calling for legal consequences for Tony Blair.
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- Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.ourcoffs.org.au)'s status on Thursday, 07-Jul-2016 07:57:05 UTC Matthew Davidson
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  #Chilcot a "chapter in the story of our inability to control a world in which Britain’s public relations politicians treat their people with contempt, kill some of their soldiers and slaughter hundreds of thousands of foreigners without any real remorse." http://ur1.ca/pf6e4
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  1. I read the Chilcot report as I travelled across Syria this week
    
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    I guess a Nuremburg trial might have been a better place to sort out the minutiae of the Blair-Bush crimes we committed to go to war in the Middle East. We brought about the deaths of up to half a million people, most of them Muslims who were as innocent as Blair was guilty. A Nuremburg-style court might thus have concentrated more on the mass Arab victims of our criminal expedition than the heinous guilt and “profound regret” – his words, of course – of Lord Blair of Kut al-Amara.
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