Author: Brian
Iraq and Mr Blair: "If treason prosper…"? – a dialogue
My old friend Peter Harvey has posted the following thought-provoking comment on the two-part entry below about Iraq and the question of the legality of the war in the light of the Attorney-General’s advice. My own reply to Peter follows.
Part I: Was the Iraq war legal? Reflections on the Attorney-General’s advice to the prime minister
The main importance of the 13-page ‘advice’ of the Attorney-General on the legality (or lack of it) of going to war against Iraq without a second UN resolution authorising it, given to the prime minister on 7 March 2003, lies in the harsh and unforgiving light it sheds on the same Attorney-General’s ‘opinion’, published 10 days later
Part II: Was the Iraq war legal? Reflections on the Attorney-General’s advice to the prime minister
In Part I of this piece, I have suggested that the suppression of the warnings and qualifications in the Attorney-General’s advice of 7 March ’03 in effect misrepresented his unqualified opinion published 10 days...
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