Resolution violation did not make Iraq war legal - Blix

[JoFerret]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=574&e=17&u=/nm/iraq_britain_dc

Keep plugging away Hans

"I don't buy the argument the war was legalized by the Iraqi violation of earlier resolutions," Blix told Britain's Independent newspaper.

[never cry wolf]

1. Thanks

Don't forget to rate the story.

[JoFerret]

3. Rated

I always do

[TacticalPeek]

2. IANAL but, sounds right to me.

"It's the Security Council that is party to the cease-fire, not the UK and the U.S. individually, and therefore it is the Council that had ownership of the cease-fire in my interpretation," he said.

[JoFerret]

4. I love this quote

from the Independent story:
<<Mr Blix demolished the argument advanced by Lord Goldsmith three days before the war began, which stated that resolution 1441 authorised the use of force because it revived earlier UN resolutions passed after the 1991 ceasefire.>>

[leesa]

5. We know that. It has been declared over and over. Let the war crimes

trials begin