The War in Iraq is Illegal
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Among the news you won't find on CNN is today's confirmation of what most people with common sense understand: the war in Iraq is illegal.
In England, Elizabeth Wilmshurst, the deputy legal adviser at the Foreign Office, described the planned invasion of Iraq as a "crime of aggression".
The interview by the United Nation's Secretary General Kofi Annan for the BBC* has nearly totally disappeared in the mainstream's 'Memory Hole' and is by them never quoted nor broadcasted.
The fact that the war is illegal, makes everybody supporting it one way or the other - and especially people in the media [those are NOT journalists] - guilty of crimes against humanity, in other words: war criminals.
The very interesting article in the british Guardian:
Revealed: the rush to warÂ
Richard Norton-Taylor
02/23/05 - "The Guardian" - The attorney general, Lord Goldsmith, warned less than two weeks before the invasion of Iraq that military action could be ruled illegal.
The government was so concerned that it might be prosecuted it set up
a team of lawyers to prepare for legal action in an international court.
And a parliamentary answer issued days before the war in the name of Lord Goldsmith - but presented by ministers as his official opinion before the crucial Commons vote - was drawn up in Downing Street, not in the attorney general's chambers.
The full picture of how the government manipulated the legal justification for war, and political pressure placed on its most senior law officer, is revealed in the Guardian today.*
It appears that Lord Goldsmith never wrote an unequivocal formal legal opinion that the invasion was lawful, as demanded by Lord Boyce, chief of defence staff at the time.
The Guardian can also disclose that in her letter of resignation in protest against the war, Elizabeth Wilmshurst, deputy legal adviser at the Foreign Office, described the planned invasion of Iraq as a "crime of aggression".
She said she could not agree to military action in circumstances she described as "so detrimental to the international order and the rule of law". [end quote]
You can find the full story at Url.: http://tinyurl.com/6qeun
FOOTNOTES/LINKS TO THE ABOVE:
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan: 'The war in Iraq is illegal' - BBC - Url.: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3661134.stm
''The Lancet'' and the ''Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health'' report: ''Over 100.000 killed in the illegal Iraq war'' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/5gys7
Bush interv. ABC: No WMD's but many killed: "It was worth it". - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/6bal9
Former Secr. of State Madeleine Albright in her comment on half a million dead children in Iraq: "We think it's worth it" On CBS 60' Minutes - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/2vmc8
Iraq Body Count - Url.: http://www.iraqbodycount.net/
A crime against humanity is an act of persecution against a group, so heinous as to warrant punishment under international law: Please scroll - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/6rphj
Latest international 'Google News' on the fake election and resistance in Iraq - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/42krg
Former PM Wim Kok - and other Dutch government's war criminals - heard in Court - Url: http://tinyurl.com/662pp - It can be done!
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The Dutch author this far has worked abroad 4 decades for international media as a foreign correspondent, of which 10 years - also during Gulf War I - in the Arab World and the Middle East. At present 'Persona non Grata' in Holland :-)
Seeing worldwide that every bullet and every bomb breeds more terrorism ! - What Bush stands for? Graves! - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/689ko - US Senator Hollings agrees: 'We have caused more terrorism than we have gotten rid of.' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/2bqza
Help the troops come home! Url.: http://www.bringemhome.org - We need them badly to fight our so called 'governments' - Url.: http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/
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Among the news you won't find on CNN is today's confirmation of what most people with common sense understand: the war in Iraq is illegal.
In England, Elizabeth Wilmshurst, the deputy legal adviser at the Foreign Office, described the planned invasion of Iraq as a "crime of aggression".
The interview by the United Nation's Secretary General Kofi Annan for the BBC* has nearly totally disappeared in the mainstream's 'Memory Hole' and is by them never quoted nor broadcasted.
The fact that the war is illegal, makes everybody supporting it one way or the other - and especially people in the media [those are NOT journalists] - guilty of crimes against humanity, in other words: war criminals.
The very interesting article in the british Guardian:
Revealed: the rush to warÂ
Richard Norton-Taylor
02/23/05 - "The Guardian" - The attorney general, Lord Goldsmith, warned less than two weeks before the invasion of Iraq that military action could be ruled illegal.
The government was so concerned that it might be prosecuted it set up
a team of lawyers to prepare for legal action in an international court.
And a parliamentary answer issued days before the war in the name of Lord Goldsmith - but presented by ministers as his official opinion before the crucial Commons vote - was drawn up in Downing Street, not in the attorney general's chambers.
The full picture of how the government manipulated the legal justification for war, and political pressure placed on its most senior law officer, is revealed in the Guardian today.*
It appears that Lord Goldsmith never wrote an unequivocal formal legal opinion that the invasion was lawful, as demanded by Lord Boyce, chief of defence staff at the time.
The Guardian can also disclose that in her letter of resignation in protest against the war, Elizabeth Wilmshurst, deputy legal adviser at the Foreign Office, described the planned invasion of Iraq as a "crime of aggression".
She said she could not agree to military action in circumstances she described as "so detrimental to the international order and the rule of law". [end quote]
You can find the full story at Url.: http://tinyurl.com/6qeun
FOOTNOTES/LINKS TO THE ABOVE:
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan: 'The war in Iraq is illegal' - BBC - Url.: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3661134.stm
''The Lancet'' and the ''Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health'' report: ''Over 100.000 killed in the illegal Iraq war'' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/5gys7
Bush interv. ABC: No WMD's but many killed: "It was worth it". - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/6bal9
Former Secr. of State Madeleine Albright in her comment on half a million dead children in Iraq: "We think it's worth it" On CBS 60' Minutes - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/2vmc8
Iraq Body Count - Url.: http://www.iraqbodycount.net/
A crime against humanity is an act of persecution against a group, so heinous as to warrant punishment under international law: Please scroll - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/6rphj
Latest international 'Google News' on the fake election and resistance in Iraq - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/42krg
Former PM Wim Kok - and other Dutch government's war criminals - heard in Court - Url: http://tinyurl.com/662pp - It can be done!
Fwd. by:
FOREIGN PRESS FOUNDATION
http://tinyurl.com/4ar5e
Editor : Henk Ruyssenaars
http://tinyurl.com/6v8ru
The Netherlands
FPF@Chello.nl
The Dutch author this far has worked abroad 4 decades for international media as a foreign correspondent, of which 10 years - also during Gulf War I - in the Arab World and the Middle East. At present 'Persona non Grata' in Holland :-)
Seeing worldwide that every bullet and every bomb breeds more terrorism ! - What Bush stands for? Graves! - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/689ko - US Senator Hollings agrees: 'We have caused more terrorism than we have gotten rid of.' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/2bqza
Help the troops come home! Url.: http://www.bringemhome.org - We need them badly to fight our so called 'governments' - Url.: http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/
HR
FPF-COPYRIGHT NOTICE - In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107 - any copyrighted work in this message is distributed by the Foreign Press Foundation under fair use, without profit or payment, to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the information. Url.: http://liimirror.warwick.ac.uk/uscode/17/107.html
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