@spendius,
How so? From what I read he was spot on.
Quote:Contradicting head-on Lord Goldsmith's advice that the invasion was lawful, Bingham stated: "It was not plain that Iraq had failed to comply in a manner justifying resort to force and there were no strong factual grounds or hard evidence to show that it had." Adding his weight to the body of international legal opinion opposed to the invasion, Bingham said that to argue, as the British government had done, that Britain and the US could unilaterally decide that Iraq had broken UN resolutions "passes belief".
He is right there was no factual hard evidence Iraq broke the UN resolutions at the time the US and Britain and those other few coalition members invaded Iraq. Had they finished inspections which at the time were largely successful, they would have known there were no stockpiles of WMD in Iraq before the invasion.
For the record I don't think Obama's administration aught to try and prosecute any war crimes for either the Bush administration or interrogators of detainees. It would simple be too time consuming plus hard to prove. I think the Obama administration aught to clean up the mess, put laws on the books to prevent this sort of thing if need be and then move forward.