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The Chilcot Report: Everlasting Emotional Turmoil For UK & Iraq

July 12, 2016 By Amarni Sharmin Akhtar 18 Comments

Last week, Sir John Chilcot finally published the long-awaited results of his Iraq War inquiry. The voluminous report details the causes and consequences of the war, criticism over legal advice and what conspired between Mr. Blair and his American counterparts.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn recently apologized for the war on behalf of the Labour Party. This was supported by John Prescott, the deputy prime minister at the time of the war, who expressed regret with the decision to go to war this week.

Lord Prescott stated in the Sunday Mirror, “I will live with the decision of going to war and its catastrophic consequences for the rest of my life.”

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs, Media & Culture Tagged With: Chilcot Report, Iraq, Iraq War, ISIS, Tony Blair

The Hands Of Greed And Climate Change In Modern Warfare

May 27, 2016 By B 1 Comment

The rise of citizen concern about armed conflict in regions like Syria and Crimea makes the 2016 global spotlight shine a little less brightly on Iraq.

In the face of pressing global challenges, like the massive refugee crisis spurred by the protracted Syrian conflict, it is all too easy to overlook the estimated 4,497 deaths and 32,021 injuries of U.S. soldiers in the Iraq War. This loss is compounded by the estimated 500,000 Iraqi fatalities attributed to the U.S. invasion, further imploring a moment of nationwide introspection about the consequences of armed conflict.

When studying lessons learned from the Iraq War, and how these lessons can help mitigate future conflict, it is important to begin by understanding that reading about massive war stats continually fails to capture the magnitude of lives lost. How can anyone possibly measure the cumulative hopes and dreams of approximately 505,000 souls?

While we cannot answer this unanswerable question, we can tell that April 4, 2016 marked the twelfth anniversary of Casey Sheehan’s passing, one of the 4,497 U.S. soldiers that lost their life in Iraq. Casey would be 36 if he were alive today. His chance to raise a family, volunteer with the Boy Scouts and church that he loved, and celebrate Mother’s Day with his family was cut tragically short.

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs, National News Tagged With: Climate change, endless war, Global capitalism, Iraq, Iraq War

Who, What, When, Where, & Why? An Iraq War Crime Report

April 25, 2016 By Cindy Sheehan for the Soapbox People’s Network Leave a Comment

Who: The U.S. War Machine: the diabolical Bush Regime at the controls

What: Imperial war for profit based on manufactured evidence and nationalist propaganda.

When: (This incarnation) March 2003 to present.

Where: Iraq

Why: Because the U.S. War Machine needs perpetual war for perpetual profit and to subjugate the people of the world and suck the life out of those in the U.S.

Every good crime report or newspaper article needs to answer these five questions, and this is a war crime report.

Filed Under: Civil Liberties, Foreign Affairs Tagged With: George W. Bush, Iraq, Iraq War, Military-industrial complex, war crimes

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