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Lord Goodhart, a senior QC and frontbench Liberal Democrat peer, said that most lawyers disagreed with the Attorney General. "Lord Goldsmith would at best be authorising the mobilisation of troops on the basis of a highly questionable statement of the law," he said.
But cabinet ministers lined up yesterday to insist that international law already justified a strike against President Saddam. Gordon Brown, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, said: "The Government would not be acting in the way it has done without there being a legal basis for its actions."
Alan Milburn, the Health Secretary, said: "In resolution 1441, what the United Nations said unanimously √ including the French government √ was that this was one final opportunity for Saddam Hussein to comply with his international obligations. It threatened him with serious consequences if he failed to comply with those obligations. Now he has a final opportunity to do so."
Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, rejected claims that British troops could find themselves facing charges under international law for attacking Iraq illegally. "The legality of any military action will be fully supported by international law. It would be completely improper were that not the case," he said.
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