With Corbyn at Helm, Labour Party Would Apologize for Iraq War
(COMMON DREAMS) Deirdre Fulton — Twelve years after he voted against UK involvement in the Iraq war, Labour Party leadership frontrunner Jeremy Corbyn has said that if elected, he will apologize to the British people for the “deception” in the run-up to the 2003 invasion and to the Iraqi people for their subsequent suffering.
“It is past time that Labour apologised to the British people for taking them into the Iraq war on the basis of deception and to the Iraqi people for the suffering we have helped cause. Under our Labour, we will make this apology,” Corbynwrote in a statement to the Guardian.
With him as leader, he said the party “will never make the same mistake again, will never flout the United Nations and international law.”