Shoot first and Inspect for Weapons later
'dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, argued that Washington could still gain U.N. approval if its forces found "irrefutable evidence" that the Iraqi regime possessed weapons of mass destruction..."Even without such evidence, the United States and its allies can justify their intervention if the Iraqi people welcome their coming and if they turn immediately back to the United Nations to help rebuild the country," she wrote in the New York Times.'

'But LCNP President Peter Weiss strongly denounced that reasoning, calling it "shocking beyond belief, coming from the current president of the American Society of International Law."'

This article includes comments by other authorities which back the position that the war is illegal. The poverty of administration arguments, however, speak for themselves: if we find evidence AFTER we have destroyed the country, that justifies it; if we rebuild the country after we have destroyed it, that justifies it. John Howard associates himself and Australia with this kind of reasoning.

Shoot first and Inspect for Weapons later
'dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, argued that Washington could still gain U.N. approval if its forces found "irrefutable evidence" that the Iraqi regime possessed weapons of mass destruction..."Even without such evidence, the United States and its allies can justify their intervention if the Iraqi people welcome their coming and if they turn immediately back to the United Nations to help rebuild the country," she wrote in the New York Times.'

'But LCNP President Peter Weiss strongly denounced that reasoning, calling it "shocking beyond belief, coming from the current president of the American Society of International Law."'

This article includes comments by other authorities which back the position that the war is illegal. The poverty of administration arguments, however, speak for themselves: if we find evidence AFTER we have destroyed the country, that justifies it; if we rebuild the country after we have destroyed it, that justifies it. John Howard associates himself and Australia with this kind of reasoning.