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Jack John Whitaker Straw
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Justice Secretary and Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom (U.K.)
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| Position: | PRO to the question "Should the U.S. have attacked Iraq?" | |||||||||
| Reasoning: | "In weighing up the pros and cons of military intervention, we have to balance the agonising loss of innocent life against the consequences of a failure to act. In Sierra Leone, Kosovo and Afghanistan we made this fateful calculation and decided to act. We are approaching the moment when the UN will have to make the same calculation in respect of Iraq. Today I have tried to set out the disturbing outcome of a failure to act decisively to secure Iraq’s disarmament. For the sake of the Iraqi people, long-term stability in the Middle East, the credibility of the UN, and the cause of international law and collective security it is a challenge we must confront." In a Speech to the International Institute for Strategic Studies
February 11, 2003 |
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Called to the Bar, 1972 Brentwood School, Essex and Leeds University
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