The Daily Star | Going to world court

I starting looking at this after a note in DemocracyNow. Unfortunately, this hasn't had much attention.

"The news of forty British MPs requesting the UN secretary general to seek advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice, to determine the legality of the British war on Iraq should be welcomed by all those that are committed to the principles of justice and fairplay. Interestingly the group of forty is led by one of Blair's own party men, Alan Simpson. Reportedly, the group cuts across partylines.

The recent report by Lord Butler was very 'British' in that it rather extraordinarily arrived at the conclusion that everybody was beyond reproach and nobody made any mistakes, what if there was failure of intelligence. Blair could only take comfort in the Butler exculpation. Yet that is not what the more perspicacious see in the doings of the British Prime Minister. Concern arises when one sees powerful countries riding roughshod on international norms and sentiments in pursuing their selfish national interest, as was done by the Americans and the British in Iraq. "