Brian Barder's website

Entries in April, 2005

Iraq and Mr Blair: "If treason prosper…"? – a dialogue

Saturday, April 30th, 2005

My old friend Peter Harvey has posted the following thought-provoking comment on the two-part entry below about Iraq and the question of the legality of the war in the light of the Attorney-General’s advice. My own reply to Peter follows.

  • Share/Bookmark

Part I: Was the Iraq war legal? Reflections on the Attorney-General’s advice to the prime minister

Friday, April 29th, 2005

The main importance of the 13-page ‘advice’ of the Attorney-General on the legality (or lack of it) of going to war against Iraq without a second UN resolution authorising it, given to the prime minister on 7 March 2003, lies in the harsh and unforgiving light it sheds on the same Attorney-General’s ‘opinion’, published 10 days later

  • Share/Bookmark

Part II: Was the Iraq war legal? Reflections on the Attorney-General’s advice to the prime minister

Friday, April 29th, 2005

In Part I of this piece, I have suggested that the suppression of the warnings and qualifications in the Attorney-General’s advice of 7 March ’03 in effect misrepresented his unqualified opinion published 10 days later as being a much firmer basis for going to war with Iraq than in fact it was: and that the [...]

  • Share/Bookmark

Iraq and the second resolution: it wasn’t the French wot done it, whatever ministers (and the Guardian) might say

Friday, April 29th, 2005

Letter to the Guardian on the advice and implications

  • Share/Bookmark

Secrets of the Attorney-General’s advice on Iraq unravel some more

Sunday, April 24th, 2005

An analysis of that advice, and the implications for Mr Blair

  • Share/Bookmark

A week in New York: ups and (especially) downs

Sunday, April 24th, 2005

About a trip to New York: how things have changed

  • Share/Bookmark

The Paxman-Blair interview: some extraordinary revelations

Friday, April 22nd, 2005

Did the prime minister really not see the Foreign Office legal advisers’ advice on the legality of the war?

  • Share/Bookmark

UK elections: two hippos in the drawing room

Wednesday, April 20th, 2005

Neither the criminal blunders over Iraq nor the wholesale destruction of our rights under cover of the soi-disant ‘war on terror’ appear to be discussed by any of the major parties in their campaigns

  • Share/Bookmark