| The [British] attorney general initially told Tony Blair that an invasion of Iraq would be illegal without a new resolution from the United Nations and only overturned his advice when Washington ordered Downing Street to find legal advice which would justify the war.
The devastating claim will be made by eminent QC and Labour peer Baroness Helena Kennedy in a television interview today. ...Her position as a member of the highest echelons of the legal community will add credence to her claims that the British government could find only two senior lawyers in the UK prepared to back the case for the invasion. Baroness Kennedy points out that Lord Goldsmith was a commercial lawyer with no experience of international law and initially relied heavily on the advice of lawyers within the Foreign Office in the months before the war. It is widely believed that advice overwhelmingly warned against invading without a UN resolution. She claims that when Washington was told of this advice their response was succinct: find a new lawyer. |
That's the way we do bidness here in Texamerica.
Washington ordered Downing Street. That should go over big.
A finding that the Attorney General had determined an invasion was illegal would also help lawsuits being filed by Iraqis seeking reparations for civilians killed. Now do you understand the wisdom of the U.S. refusing to be held to account by International Law?
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