World Tribunal on Iraq verdict tomorrow
Sun Jun 26, 2005 at 06:35:53 PM PDT
Here, in my opinion, is big news that needs more attention, so I am going ahead with another diary about it. In the past few days, 2 others here at daily Kos diaried this subject, "
Hannah, & "
numediaman, but not many people paid attention because I think it was too early to make much of an impact yet. The WTI is scheduled to give a verdict on the role of Bush & Blair at the end of its session tomorrow basing its judgment on the evidence provided by a 58-member panel of advocates and witnesses. My thanks to Hannah & numediaman for bringing this story to light here at dKos in the first place. Let me know if my redundancy is out of line....I sure hope not.
Fresh off the British Press
Sat Jun 18, 2005 at 07:49:37 PM PDT
Michael Smith at the
Sunday Times is at it again....This time with
Annex A, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office legal advice appended to the Cabinet Office briefing paper on Iraq of July 21, 2002. It notes that "This advice was originally written in March 2002."
I realize that the pre-war bombings are old news....but it sure is fun to see another leaked document out of the UK!
Another Leaked British "Cabinet Briefing" paper
Sat Jun 11, 2005 at 04:05:42 PM PDT
Hot of the British Press
Sunday Times
Update [2005-6-11 23:21:23 by KristyZ]:Source Document
Ministers were told of need for Gulf war `excuse'
MINISTERS were warned in July 2002 that Britain was committed to taking part in an American-led invasion of Iraq and they had no choice but to find a way of making it legal.
The warning, in a leaked Cabinet Office briefing paper, said Tony Blair had already agreed to back military action to get rid of Saddam Hussein at a summit at the Texas ranch of President George W Bush three months earlier.
The briefing paper, for participants at a meeting of Blair's inner circle on July 23, 2002, said that since regime change was illegal it was "necessary to create the conditions" which would make it legal.
This was required because, even if ministers decided Britain should not take part in an invasion, the American military would be using British bases. This would automatically make Britain complicit in any illegal US action.
