The Lincoln Plawg (that's: Politics and law from a British perspective - hence Politics LAW BloG) is consistently the most sophisticated anti-war voice I've found. I could point to it every day, but I'll pick out this one just for the heck of it.
From here: But no one put the basic point: that disobedience towards UN Security Council resolutions - in whatever fancy words you dress it up - is not, in international law, a justification for war [2]; therefore, the proposed invasion must be judged according to the general principles applicable to pre-emptive war; and, according to those principles, the invasion is illegal.... to the end of the post is a great summary of what many feel, but few can express so well. I hope he digs deeper into this vein as he suggests.
Or how about this gem from today: "Perhaps War Party evidence-faking is now on a par with the Pope's religion and ursine defecatory habits as a paradigm statement of (in the London vernacular) the bleeding obvious...."
This guy is good.
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From here: to the end of the post is a great summary of what many feel, but few can express so well. I hope he digs deeper into this vein as he suggests.
- jim 3-07-2003 8:33 pm
Or how about this gem from today: "Perhaps War Party evidence-faking is now on a par with the Pope's religion and ursine defecatory habits as a paradigm statement of (in the London vernacular) the bleeding obvious...."
This guy is good.
- jim 3-08-2003 8:05 pm