Iraqi insurgents acting WITHIN the law.

[greatauntoftriplets]

MPs can end the Iraq folly

Tony Benn
Wednesday September 22, 2004
The Guardian

At the moment when the prime minister has announced his decision to intensify the war in Iraq and when more British troops may well be sent there, the time has come for new policies to be adopted since we know, in great detail, all the key facts from very authoritative sources.
We know from Paul O'Neill, George Bush's first treasury secretary, that the new president took the decision to invade Iraq when he entered the White House - almost a year before the attack on the twin towers - and that no one in Washington orLondon really ever believed that Saddam Hussein was responsible for the atrocity.

The real reason for the invasion was to topple Saddam, seize the oil and establish permanent US bases to dominate the region. And we know that Tony Blair privately shared these objectives, and used the weapons issue to persuade parliament and public.

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Kofi Annan, as secretary general of the UN, has now told us that that war was illegal and contrary to the provisions of the charter - which only provides for military action in self-defence or when authorised by the security council - which must mean that those Iraqis now defending their own country are acting within the law.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1309789,00.html

[TryingToWarnYou]

1. Great article...kick

[liveoaktx]

2. FINALLY someone says it-Iraqis acting within the law

[Renew Deal]

4. What about the foreigners coming in?

Syrians, Iranians and others. Are they legal?

[cspiguy]

5. just like the Viet Cong!

n/t

[Minstrel Boy]

3. If the invasion was illegal, resisting it is not.

That's how it goes.

[moulty]

6. Stupid to push this point

If democrats now start saying the insurgency is "legal', it will be a stupid mistake. Let Kofi Anan say the war is illegal, that's fine, but what purpose does it serve to start saying stupid things like the despicable murderers that are doing the beheadings are acting "legally"?

Even if one does NOT say that because they are "foreign" agents, it will still be taken that way.

Drop this one now.