WTF Is It Now?!?

Iraq war 'could have been illegal'
UK, 6/10/03 - Lawyers for peace campaigners are arguing the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has made the legality of the war questionable. The group is pressing for a judicial review into the attorney general's advice to the government that attacking Iraq was legal.

The issue has plunged into renewed controversy amid claims that Iraq's WMD threat had been "sexed up" by Downing Street with undue prominence given to a dubious claim an attack could be launched in 45 minutes. - BBC News.


Iraq weapons: Where does the buck stop?
In the aftermath of the Iraq war, you can almost hear the buck being passed between political leaders and their intelligence advisers. While the intelligence performance has caused less turmoil in Washington than London, the powerful US Congressional committees are stirring.

The head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Vice-Admiral Lowell Jacoby, was called to see the Senate Armed Services Committee to explain why a leaked report from last September concluded: "There is no reliable evidence on whether Iraq is producing and stockpiling chemical weapons."

Afterwards the admiral said that the quote was taken "out of context" and that it simply meant that "we were not able to pin down individual facilities".

The committees' Republican chairmen are reluctant to launch formal investigations as yet. - Paul Reynolds, BBC News Online world affairs correspondent.