Colin Powell in The Washington Times

On War & Peace: Rejects Kofi Annan’s assertion that Iraq war is illegal

Powell expressed disapproval of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s description of the war in Iraq as illegal. “We should all be gathering around the idea of helping the Iraqis, not getting into these kinds of side issues.” Powell said the Constitution gives the US the right to act in its own self-defense without U.N. approval, but argued that the Iraq war itself was justified by Saddam’s “material breach” of earlier U.N. resolutions. “What we did was totally consistent with international law.” Source: David R. Sands, Washington Times on Bush Cabinet Sep 16, 2004

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