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Bertie say This is NOT a preemptive War
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Wednesday April 02, 2003 17:33 by Joe Sheehan
Unfortunately i do not have great details on this just caught the end on the radio but i did hear him say that the Attack on Iraq is NOT a pre-emptive strike. If someone can find a link for this would be very good. so now we have semi neutrality and this is not a preemptive war, I can not wait for his next comment
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Jump To Comment: 1 2He's committed Ireland to supporting a war. Admitting it was a pre-emptive strike would be fairly damning evidence at his trial in the International Criminal Court. He might as we'll stand up and say "we support unprovoked attacks on sovereign states".
Bah, Bertie Hussein.
As regard pre-emptive strikes, we do not believe the question of pre-emptive strikes applies to this conflict. The reason for that is that the permanent representatives of both the US, the UK and Australia wrote separately to the President of the Security Council informing him that military action had been taken against Iraq. All three said the reason was Iraq's failure to disarm, so they had complied with the rules. The United Nations Charter allows for the use of force in two circumstances, first, when states are acting individually or collectively or in self defence or, second, when the Security Council has decided that force is necessary. In our view a second resolution would have been the way to resolve all of these difficulties but that did not happen. Internationally and legally, it is not considered to be a pre-emptive strike.