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[casi] > Cherie's law firm to tell Tony: Iraq attack would be illegal




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> News from the GREEN PARTY
>
>
> Cherie's law firm to tell Tony: Iraq attack would be illegal
>
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> A leading QC from Matrix Chambers - Cherie Blair's law firm - will assert
>  this week that the proposed second UN resolution on Iraq would NOT
authorise
>  the use of force.
>
>
> Following a meeting at Matrix Chambers with representatives of the Green
>  Party, CND, Greenpeace and the Campaign Against the Arms Trade, the top
>  lawyer has prepared a detailed legal opinion that the resolution will NOT
>  provide legal grounds for an attack on Iraq. The opinion will be ready at
>  10.30 today.
>
> Green Party spokeserson Penny Kemp commented today: "This could unhinge
Tony
>  Blair's attempts to take Britain to war."
>
> Penny Kemp continued: "The Green Party has consistently said that an
immoral
>  war, in which the chief victims would be civilians (1), could not be made
>  moral merely by a resolution of the UN Security Council. The US can get
its
>  own way in the Security Council through bullying and bribery. It's much
>  harder for them to persuade the General Assembly to do their bidding."
>
> She added: "UK opinion polls have shown a strong trend away from support
>  from the war. Now it will be even harder to argue that a war could be
>  legitimised by the much-vaunted "second resolution" (2). Following top
legal
>  opinion that the new resolution would not in fact authorise a war, more
>  people are likely to join the swelling ranks of those entirely opposed to
an
>  attack (3)."
>
> *****++++++*****
>
> Notes to editors:
>  1. See Secret UN document reveals war could kill ONE MILLION Iraqi
children,
>  17.2.03
>  2. See a MORI poll reported on 21.1.03 in which 61% said they would
support
>  Britain joining an American-led military action against Iraq with UN
>  approval - but this was down from 71% in September. And this was before
>  Fenruary's massive peace demonstration.
>  3. In the above poll, 77% said they would oppose such action if it did
not
>  have UN approval - up from 70% in September.
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> Matthew LJ Wootton
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