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Hopeless Romantic Donating Member (495 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-11 05:00 PM
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Tony Blair 'misled' Commons over legal advice on war in Iraq
Tony Blair misled Parliament by claiming that Britain could legally attack Iraq in the face of United Nations opposition despite being given clear advice to the contrary, new evidence suggests.

In evidence to the Iraq inquiry, Lord Goldsmith, who at the time was the government’s top legal adviser, disclosed that he was “uncomfortable” about statements made by the then-prime minister in the run up to the 2003 invasion.

Two months before the war began, in a meeting at No 10, the former attorney general told Mr Blair that war would not be legal without a fresh mandate from the UN.

In a statement to MPs the following day, however, the Labour prime minister said that there were “circumstances” in which an attack could be valid.

The following month, he gave an interview in which he suggested that war would be legal if another nation had made an “unreasonable” veto at the UN on military action.

A witness statement to the Chilcot Inquiry into the war, published today, makes clear that Lord Goldsmith considered that this did not accord with the advice he had given Mr Blair.

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Jeneral2885 Donating Member (598 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-18-11 11:51 AM
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1. and
how many other Prime Ministers or Presidents have done the same?
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