2003 invasion of Iraq

...law. Peter Goldsmith, the attorney-general at the time, wrote to Mr Blair, a close friend, eight months before the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, but the prime minister ignored the advice, the Mail on Sunday reported. The...

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...and electoral authorities. The election is a milestone for Iraq as it emerges from years of sectarian violence that followed the 2003 invasion. It also comes as the United States seeks to meet a deadline at the end of August 2010 to...

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...the failure to win UN approval for the war had seriously undermined the legitimacy of the conflict. He said that in his opinion, the US-led invasion of Iraq was legal - a view rejected by critics who say it violated international law - but...

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...for a democratic country, Britain's former UN ambassador said yesterday. Sir Jeremy Greenstock told the Iraq inquiry that the 2003 invasion did not have the backing of the UN or the majority of British people, "so there was a...

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LONDON (Reuters) - The United States followed its own military timetable for the 2003 invasion of Iraq rather than allowing diplomacy to run its full course, the former British ambassador to the United Nations said on Friday. Jeremy...

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...role as a middle power mediator, respected by both sides in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, for example, and opposed to the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 because it wasn't approved by the U.N. This collective self-image - and the...

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War Redux: Britain Launches a New Iraq Inquiry By Eben Harrell / London Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009 A protester wears a Tony Blair maks at the long-awaited public inquiry into Britain's role in the Iraq war Blog this on: It's been nearly...

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...long-awaited inquiry into the Iraq War is an opportunity to get to the truth of what happened in the run-up to, during and after the 2003 invasion. Hearings to be held largely in public are a chance to discuss evidence from the key players,...

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[...] Significantly, the documents support what officials have earlier admitted - that the army was not allowed to prepare properly for the Iraq invasion in 2002 so as not to alert parliament and the UN that Blair was already determined to go...

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