Administration Admits Iraq War Illegal

From Atrios: Richard Perle, no less, in a Guardian interview:

In a startling break with the official White House and Downing Street lines, Mr Perle told an audience in London: "I think in this case international law stood in the way of doing the right thing." [snip]

But Mr Perle, a key member of the defence policy board, which advises the US defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, said that "international law ... would have required us to leave Saddam Hussein alone", and this would have been morally unacceptable.

The sheer chutzpah. Everyone opposed to the war has been saying this for months - and Perle just comes right out and admits it.

I only wish I could say I was shocked.

Maybe BushCo was tired of inventing new reasons why they started this war. WMDs didn't work, freeing the Iraqis didn't really cut it, the "Reverse Domino Effect" didn't really work either. So they just said "fuck it. We did it because we could. "

Go read Atrios, then head over the Guardian to read the whole thing.

Disgusting.