A fascinating haul of classified documents released yesterday shed new light on the legal shenanigans in the run-up to the Iraq war.
Among them, we see the former attorney general, Lord Goldsmith, setting down on 30 January 2003 that he believed war without a second UN resolution would be illegal. The next day, Blair met Bush and offered to support the US-led plan.
Blair scribbled on the margin of the attorney general’s letter that he didn’t “understand this”. Gary Gibbon has deciphered the marginalia – well worth a read.
The inquiry has also invited international lawyers to give their verdict on the legal basis for going to war.
Author: |Posted: July 1, 2010
Tags: Lord Goldsmith/ Tony Blair
One Response to “Declassified documents on legality of war”
One of the most interesting (and unexplored) aspects of the illegaility of the Iraq War is that it is “terrorism” in UK Law.
Chilcot was informed of the illegaility in UK Law in February 2010 and is ignoring it. Isn’t that carrying whitewash a step too far?
See, for example, http://chilcotscheatingus.blogspot.com/2010/02/use-off-armed-force-by-uk-military.html for some of the background.
I can be contacted via this:
http://chilcotscheatingus.blogspot.com/2010/11/contact-email-address-for-chilcots.html
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