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April 28, 2005
Simon Jenkins to Blair: 'Try the Truth Next Time, Tony'
Simon Jenkins of The Times of London, in commenting on Lord Goldsmith's legal opinion on whether invading Iraq without the support of the United Nations was legal, said:
The recently published advice from the Attorney-General confirms what most people suspected. Mr Blair could not have won Cabinet and parliamentary support for the war in March 2003 without two crucial pieces of publicisable information. One was that Saddam posed an “imminent” threat, the other that an invasion not backed by the UN was still legal. When he read Lord Goldsmith’s March 7 opinion, which was unequivocally hostile to the war, he knew it had to be changed. The crusader was armoured, mounted and half way to Jerusalem.Mr. Jenkins said Mr. Blair "needed a blessing not a permit from the Mother Church that is the law. Since its vicar on earth was Lord Goldsmith, a man whom he had preferred and ennobled, he duly got what he wanted." Here's more.
Posted by Munir Umrani at April 28, 2005 04:33 PM
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