As you say, Rov, "Hindsight proved them to be right." I have worn glasses since I was eight, but my hindsight has invariably scored an excellent 20/20 throughout the intervening decades!
The letter I referred to earlier can be seen here
http://www.timesonlin...rs/article7004974.ece It was written by Philip Allott, Professor Emeritus of International Public Law, Trinity College, University of Cambridge.
Even if you look at nothing but the opening words and who the signatory is, you will perhaps grasp that the whole concept of an illegal war is a nonsense, as I said earlier.
An emeritus professor is one who has retired, so I would not be in the least surprised to find that he actually TAUGHT some of the Government lawyers who decided on the war's illegality. Who's more likely to be right...master or pupil?
NATO and Russia all went into Bosnia in the 1990s without asking the UN for permission, but I cannot recall anyone whining about "an illegal war" then, can you?
Believe what you like about Blair and Brown, but you cannot imagine they are educationally subnormal. If Blair, for example, actually KNEW there were no WMDs...ie he lied about them...what do you suppose he was going to say when the inevitable military victory came about and the equally inevitable truth about WMDs was revealed? He'd need to be a cretin not to see an elephant-trap this size yawning on the road ahead!
The entire Chilcot Inquiry is a total waste of time and money.