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In reply to the discussion: Report: Jeremy Corbyn Led Campaign to Free Israeli Embassy in London Bombers [View all]JawJaw
(722 posts)16. Misleading Smear, Not a Quote.
No, he's not the guy who called Bin Laden's death a tragedy.
What he actually said in 2012 was
(there has been) no attempt whatsoever that I can see to arrest him and put him on trial, to go through that process.
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 Guantanamo 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.
Which, by any reasonable assessment means a totally different thing.
The right-wing press in the UK have tried to smear Corbyn with this "tragedy" bullshit. I expected better from a progressive forum.
If you're going to propagate lies, please don't put them in quotation marks.
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Report: Jeremy Corbyn Led Campaign to Free Israeli Embassy in London Bombers [View all]
geek tragedy
Sep 2015
OP
that party is a mess. They've had a long string of losers, but electing someone
geek tragedy
Sep 2015
#3
OK...Saddam, Bashir Assad, The Saudi royals(just as oppressive as Saddam and the Assads)
Ken Burch
Sep 2015
#15
he's upset because bin Laden wasn't treated fairly in his mind, ergo the 'tragedy' part
geek tragedy
Sep 2015
#19
As I said, if you take each thing as a separate incident, they can be written off as a gaffe.
geek tragedy
Sep 2015
#22
even if one buys his excuses (I don't), he's shown a pattern of getting suckered
geek tragedy
Sep 2015
#26