Tony Blair Embroiled in New Iraq WMD Fiasco

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This should be getting more attention here in the US given the implications for the Bush Administration. Any surprise no one is paying attention?

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Rebutting Gordon Brown: The Attorney General's Legal Advice,
Government Spin and the Iraq War (Part II)
by Milan Rai

British Prime Minister Tony Blair thinks that the controversy over the Attorney General's legal advice is a “damp squib.” His ministers struggle to put out the raging fire -- which has torched their election campaign plans -– by offering up distortions and lies. The crucial point is that in his 7 March legal advice, Lord Goldsmith said that if there was no second UN resolution authorizing war against Iraq, there had to be “hard evidence” of Iraqi “non-compliance and non-cooperation” with its disarmament obligations. (Legally, this is nonsense, but the issue is what the Government's legal adviser told Tony Blair, and what Mr. Blair did with that advice.) Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown has sought to defend the decision to go to war (which he participated), by referring to a range of documents brought before the British Cabinet on 17 March 2003. None of these documents demonstrates that Iraq was failing to cooperate with inspectors, or that Iraq definitely possessed weapons of mass destruction. The documents instead demonstrated that Iraqi cooperation with the inspectors, and Iraqi disarmament, were increasing, not decreasing, on 17 March 2003. It was also clear that the judgment as to Iraq's cooperation should not have been made by the British Cabinet, but by UN weapons inspectors and the UN Security Council....
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Apr05/Rai0429.htm

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