I think you know what the justification was, the Labour Government at the time believed that Iraq posed an existential threat to the area. Prior to that of course there was the worst terrorist atrocity perpetrated on the West by a terrorist organisation propped up and given shelter by the Taliban in Afghanistan, a terror group headed by one Osama Bin Laden, whose death Corbyn described as a tragedy. A tragedy for whom exactly? I take it you are of the view that Bin Laden’s actions were justified then, or at the very least understandable? And all terrorist attacks wherever they occur against the West?
How many mistakes can you include in one post.
Iraq posed no threat, google WMD.
Corbyn said Bin Laden should have been tried under international law and the fact that he didn’t was the tragedy.
“Jeremy Corbyn has come under fire for saying it was a “tragedy” that Osama bin Laden was killed by the US rather than being put on trial.
The Labour leadership frontrunner made the remarks shortly after the special forces raid in 2011 on the al-Qaida chief’s Pakistan compound in which he and four others were shot dead.
In an interview for Iranian television, he suggested the assassination of the mastermind behind the September 11 attacks would result in deeper unrest.
It is the latest in a series of past comments and associations that the veteran left-winger has been forced to defend since emerging as the surprise favourite to succeed Ed Miliband.
In a clip from the Press TV show the Agenda, Corbyn is heard complaining that there had been “no attempt whatsoever that I can see to arrest him and put him on trial, to go through that process”. He went on: “This was an assassination attempt, and is yet another tragedy, upon a tragedy, upon a tragedy.
“The World Trade Center was a tragedy, the attack on Afghanistan was a tragedy, the war in Iraq was a tragedy. Tens of thousands of people have died. Torture has come back on to the world stage, been canonised virtually into law by Guantánamo and Bagram.
“Can’t we learn some lessons from this? Are we just going to sink deeper and deeper?
“The next stage will be an attempted assassination on Gaddafi and so it will go on. This will just make the world more dangerous and worse and worse and worse.”
A spokesman for Corbyn said he was “a total opponent of al-Qaida, all it stands for”.
He was proved correct.