miasma the spectre haunting europe

No idea why this article from November 2003 is currently circulating the web but I can’t recall reading it at the time:-

“International lawyers and anti-war campaigners reacted with astonishment yesterday after the influential Pentagon hawk Richard Perle conceded that the invasion of Iraq had been illegal.

In a startling break with the official White House and Downing Street lines, Mr Perle told an audience in London: “I think in this case international law stood in the way of doing the right thing.”…”