according to the CBC, the british military is consulting lawyers with expertise in international law regarding military moves, strategy and targets in iraq. they have a pack of lawyers in iraq with them.
R
----- Original Message -----
From: Carl Remick
To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 8:01 AM
Subject: MP brands Blair war criminal
[I hope the sentiments expressed by Labour MP Tam Dalyell (below) prove
widely influential. Clearly US/UK imperialism would not have reached its
current advanced state of malignancy without the unctuous Rt. Rev. Tony
Blair providing a moral gloss for every exercise of allied armed might going
back to Kosovo. Blair well deserves the fate of earlier religious fanatic
Oliver Cromwell, whose head was displayed on a pole at Westminster Hall for
over 20 years.]
Blair, the war criminal
Tam Dalyell
Thursday March 27, 2003
The Guardian
My constituency Labour party has just voted to recommend that Tony Blair
reconsider his position as party leader because he gave British backing to a
war against Iraq without clearly expressed support from the UN.
I agree with this motion. I also believe that since Mr Blair is going ahead
with his support for a US attack without unambiguous UN authorisation, he
should be branded as a war criminal and sent to The Hague.
... many in this country think the fundamentalists now running the White
House are using Blair's support as a fig leaf against their critics. It is
useful for these people to say to their opponents: "But a British Labour
prime minister supports us."
If Britain had made it clear months ago that we would not be party to a US
attack on Iraq, US public opinion itself might have stopped this war. ...
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,922541,00.html>
Carl
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