It’s not just lefty protestors that think the war in Iraq was illegal – Kofi Annan, the then Sectretary General of the United Nations, believed the US Invasion of Iraq in 2003 to be illegal, and this  position is also shared by the present deputy prime minister – Nick Clegg

In order to understand how a war can be legal or not  you have to know something about the Charter of the United Nations – which is a legally binding agreement that came into being following World War II, and now signed by nearly 200 Nations. The gernal idea behind the Charter was to increse international co-operation and avoid another World War. To this end, one of the things the UN Charter specifies is when countries can go to war legitimately – either when invaded by another country, or when the UN sanctions the use of force. Below is an execellent video that outlines what the United Nations Charter is, the conditions under which states are allowed to go to war  – and how the United States breached these conditions when it went to war in Iraq – making this an illegal war, and a supurb example of State Crime.