Originally Posted by RileyDove
Pongochap - Logic and indeed international law does not indicate in any way that the decision to attack Iraq was legal. It's all very well putting some old resolutions in the microwave for ten minutes and instantly making them new again but when you conduct 'spikes of activity' which were the biggest bombing raids since the end of GWI we were clearly in a position of going far beyond the terms of the no-fly' zones.
I have some strong objections to the way we went to war in Iraq, but that is not the issue here. The orders given to him and the current occupation of Iraq are certainly not illegal. If he'd tried this
before the passage of UNSCR 1546 - ie, anytime between the start of operations and 08 Jun 2004 - then he may have had a case.
But it was after, so he had no case. I would have thought, being so intelligent and all, he would have looked into that.....