The prospect of a trial for Tony Blair now starts to look more plausible

When Desmond Tutu wrote that Tony Blair should be treading the path to the Hague, he de-normalised what Blair has done Tutu broke the protocol of power – the implicit accord between those who flit from one grand meeting to another – and named his crime. I expect that Blair will never recover from it.

The offence is known by two names in international law: the crime of aggression and a crime against peace. It is defined by the Nuremberg Principles as the "planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression". This means a war fought for a purpose other than self-defence: in other words outwith articles 33 and 51 of the UN Charter .... http://uruknet.info