11/18/2008: Agence France Presse reports that yesterday in a speech before the British Institute of International and Comparative Law in London, law lord Thomas Bingham said the advice then-top UK government lawyer Peter Goldsmith gave Prime Minister Tony Blair on the eve of the 2003 Iraq War was flawed in two respects - it failed to account for the lack of hard evidence to support claims of an Iraqi WMD program, and it failed to note that only the UN Security Council could authorize further action against Saddam Hussein.
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