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March 7, 2002: British Cabinet Member Asks Where Country Obtained Authority to Invade Iraq

2002-03-07

According to British Foreign Minister Robin Cook, Home Secretary David Blunkett asks where Britain had obtained the “legal authority” to invade Iraq. [Sunday Times (London), 10/5/2003; Independent, 10/6/2003; Cook, 8/2/2004]