However you dress it up, the Iraq war was, under international law, an illegal act of aggression against a sovereign state. It constituted a #WarCrime and a #CrimeAgainstHumanity. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of innocent people have paid with their lives or suffered unbelievable hardship as a direct result of that act of aggression!

Those who perpetrated that aggression in the name of democracy & the ending of a vile dictatorship, like #TonyBlair and #AlastairCampbell in the #UK, are guilty of War Crimes yet they remain free men: #Blair to earn £millions from advising various sordid dictatorships like Saudi Arabia; #Campbell to be feted on the #BBC state broadcaster & various other #CorporateMedia talk shows!

Conversely, #Wikileaks founder Julian #Assange, who exposed many of those heinous crimes, has been rotting away in isolation for years in #Britain’s top security Belmarsh prison & awaits possible extradition to the #US Imperium where he will likely be imprisoned & tortured for the rest of his days!

In this short but excellent @DoubleDownNews episode, Stop The War Coalition’s (#STWC) Lindsey German asks “What kind of world rewards war criminals & imprisons those who tell the truth?” She discusses the legacy of the Iraq War & makes a strong case for putting Blair (and other Iraq war criminals) in jail instead of Assange! https://youtu.be/YudeIkDaTRA

Fondly remembering that time #StopTheWar Coalition surreptitiously edited the title and changed the URL slug of one of their pieces on the day the war started, as they *almost* managed to see that maybe the language and ideas that they propagate are bad.

#STWC #UkraineWar #RussiaWar