Attorney general 'scraped the legal barrel' over Iraq war: "A leading legal peer accused the attorney general last night of 'scraping the bottom of the legal barrel' to give legitimacy to the war on Iraq.
Lord Alexander of Weedon QC, chairman of the all-party law reform group, Justice, said it was 'risible' for the government to rely on a UN resolution passed in 1990 as the basis for an invasion of Iraq in 2003 - which ministers knew the security council would not authorise. "
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