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To: A. Geiche who wrote (475813)	10/14/2003 8:54:14 PM
From: A. Geiche	Read Replies (2) of 769670

Rowan Williams Condemns War on Iraq By Tom Kelly, PA News Tue 14 Oct 2003 6:59pm (UK) The Archbishop of Canterbury revived his criticism of the war in Iraq today, claiming it had been wrong to topple Saddam Hussein without the backing of the United Nations. Dr Rowan Williams said no government should act as its own judge on whether to launch military action against a rogue state. He said: “Violence is not to be undertaken by private persons. If a state or administration acts without due and visible attention to agreed international process, it acts in a way analogous to a private person. “It purports to be judge of its own interest.” His comments came in a lecture to the Royal Institute for International Affairs discussing the justification of the conflict. Dr Williams said he recognised there were weaknesses in the current international legal institutions and called for a shake-up in the UN to deal with the problem. A new panel of legal experts should be introduced to advise where military intervention was necessary, rather than relying entirely on the UN Security Council, he said. Dr Williams also urged the US to recognise that the terrorists that threaten it have “serious moral goals”. While terrorism must always be condemned, it was wrong to assume its perpetrators were “devoid of political rationality”. “It is possible to use unspeakably wicked means to pursue an aim that is shared by those who would not dream of acting in the same way, an aim that is intelligible or desirable.” By ignoring this in its criticism of al Qaida, America “loses the power of self-criticism and becomes trapped in a self-referential morality,” he said. Dr Williams made several attacks on the moral legitimacy of the war before its outbreak. In February he issued a joint statement with Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor calling for continued weapons inspections in Iraq, which they said could render the conflict unnecessary. They also warned of the “unpredictable humanitarian and political consequences” of a war.>>>>

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