Comments on: Legality of War

By: Julian Todd

Julian Todd — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 12:10:22 +0000

(sorry, pressed the wrong button. Last comment shouldn’t be reported.)

Last time I checked, GB wasn’t a Limited Liability Company, therefore the voters who are supposedly in authority of this organization are ultimately liable for all its wrongdoings. That’s how it should be. You can’t not have that, while demanding that Iraq is still liable for all the international debt loaned to it during when it was under the control of a dictator.

By: Mr Pooter

Mr Pooter — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 11:33:27 +0000

There might be another reason for this stone walling, besides the possibility that there was no final written advice or that is was equivocal, and that is that an ‘illegal’ war might invite massive claims for damages from the public purse - that’s us.

By: Julian Todd

Julian Todd — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 11:13:48 +0000

We know the war was illegal already — Britain was not under imminent attack by Iraq, and there was no UN resolution legalizing it. On the latter point, I may be naive to accept the assurances made at the time that the 1441 resolution was voted on that it was not an authorization for war, but then I’m not a Bliar’s lawyer.

This illegality of this war is absolutely without doubt. Put it into a smaller context: if you have a dead body on the street with a knife wound to the chest of a man who was evidently unarmed, you know this was an illegal killing. There are legal killings — they happen in an execution chamber after due lawful process, etc. And there are legal killings in self-defence. Since dangerous psi-powers don’t exist outside of the X-files, an observer is going to want to see a weapon for that story not to be laughed at.

The purpose of seeing this legal advice is not to prove that the war was illegal, but to prove that Blair *knew* this war was illegal. That makes him not guilty of a mistake, but just guilty full stop.

By: PapaLazzzaru

PapaLazzzaru — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 21:56:16 +0000

Someone’s obviously given the order to burn certain bits of paper…

By: Roger Huffadine

Roger Huffadine — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 21:55:16 +0000

If there is nothing ‘dodgy’ to hide then we would have had an answer by now.

The more the government try to hide the easier it is to believe that the war was illegal.

I’m just waiting for the War Crimes Tribunal to make decisions on the numerous submissions for TB to be tried as a war criminal. They seem to be dragging their feet a bit on this one - I wonder why……