Well it looks like the debate over the Iraq War has been given new life over in the UK with the release of Lord Goldsmith's papers outlining his legal advice to Tony Blair before the war...
BBC Analysis of the papers and the implications:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politi...ge/4482029.stm
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Analysis: Iraq war legality
The full advice that Attorney General Lord Goldsmith gave to the prime minister before the Iraq war has been published on the Downing Street website.
The 7 March 2003 advice examines possible doubts and arguments about the legality of the war that were not published at the time.
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Of course with all the political campagining going on there was bound to be a statement by the Tories about the Iraq War... to bad Howard comes off sounding like Bush...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politi...ge/4497777.stm
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Last Updated: Friday, 29 April, 2005, 15:40 GMT 16:40 UK
Howard stance on Iraq 'unlawful'
Experts in international law have criticised Tory leader Michael Howard's stance on the Iraq war as "unlawful".
Mr Howard told a BBC Question Time Special he would have invaded Iraq even if he had known then Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction (WMD).
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If find it particularlly interesting that the arguement for "regime change" was discounted because of it's illegality in international law... as well as the arguement that discounting France's veto, and going to war wouldn't be exactly legal either...
However most interesting is the hardening or change that Lord Goldsmith's report went through, so that a week later all these legal issues where gone and the UK declared war.
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