War Criminal?For Tony Blair, the War in Iraq May Never Be Over. As New Questions Are Asked About Whether the Invasion Was Illegal, the Advice of the Attorney General . . . And His Sudden Change of Mind . . . Puts the Prime Minister Back in the Dock

Sunday Herald › February 28, 2005

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THE increase in the minimum wage was supposed to be top of the agenda at Tony Blair's monthly press conference at Downing Street on Friday. The Prime Minister was anxious to engage in the debate, or indeed any debate on any subject - domestic or international - bar one.

But again it was Iraq that dominated proceedings. Two years after the invasion that put him under enough pressure to end most careers, the spectre of Iraq continues to haunt him in the days running up to an almost certain general election on May 5.

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War Criminal?For Tony Blair, the War in Iraq May Never Be Over. As New Questions Are Asked About Whether the Invasion Was Illegal, the Advice of the Attorney General . . . And His Sudden Change of Mind . . . Puts the Prime Minister Back in the Dock

Blair has fought off opponents within his own party, faced down the one million-plus who marched in the streets to oppose the war and saw the BBC retreat as it reported - accurately - criticism within his own security services.

But Iraq has not faded away quietly.

At the core of Blair's problem is the issue he cannot avoid: the legality of his decision to unquestionably support the Bush administration in going to war in Iraq when virtually all international legal advice warned there was no justification for doing so.

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