War illegal, says Perle

Richard Perle admits the Iraq war was illegal. Nice to see him joining the chorus.

Perle went on to say that "in this case international law stood in the way of doing the right thing." Amusing twist of logic here: one of the arguments used to justify the war was that Iraq had been thumbing its nose at international law, specifically UN Resolutions (hello, Israel).

That the US decided to break international law and flout the UN charter allegedly to enforce the resolutions is one of the more blatantly Orwellian developments of the past year.

Update: Dubya one-ups Perle: the war that breached the UN charter was necessary to, yes, save the UN. Talk about Orwellian...