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Iraq: 20 Years On | The Road to War
Intelligence Squared
Is the Invasion of Iraq a Legal War?
The question of whether it was a legal war is still fraught to this day, really. The whisper went around white hall in this very fraught atmosphere leading up to when we know a date had been chosen for the war. One of the senior legal advisers in the Foreign Office resigned, if you remember, saying it wasn't legal. This legal opinion, none of us saw, and then just before the invasion date, an abbreviated version of the legal opinion was put around the Cabinet table. And later, after the war, there were full doubts about whether it was legal, and then loophole was found to get Tony Blair to give a side assurance. So it was concocted the legal authority and
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