BBC NEWS Politics Wilmshurst resignation letter: "I cannot in conscience go along with advice - within the Office or to the public or Parliament - which asserts the legitimacy of military action without such a resolution, particularly since an unlawful use of force on such a scale amounts to the crime of aggression; nor can I agree with such action in circumstances which are so detrimental to the international order and the rule of law. "
This war was a crime of aggression.
The Foreign Office are the experts on International Law.
The attorney General is an expert in other things. He had to go far and wide to find an expert who would tell him that the old UN resolutions were enough to justify war.
The legal advice from all sides was very clear that the second resolution was needed. That is why even America tried to bully it's way to one.
Last night someone uncovered the blanked out part of this resignation letter where the Attorney General's change of mind is challenged.
How much longer will it take for someone to tell us the truth about the original advice on the legality of war, and more importantly why it changed at the point where it became clear there would be no second resolution?
The election is coming. It is time to start building irresistible pressure to be told the truth.
We know that Bush-Blair believe that you can go on telling an enormous lie till it is accepted as truth.
We need to go on confronting that lie till it has no more force than Saddam's weapons.
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