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Media watch organization FAIR covers the ground CNN's Lou Dobbs missed in his knee-jerk reaction to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's assertion that the US war on Iraq is illegal - and in the process reminds us that neoconservadroid Richard Perle thought so, too:

For the record, Annan would certainly not be the first person to make such "outrageous" comments. In fact, last year the prominent neoconservative hawk Richard Perle, who serves on the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board, indicated that he thought that the invasion violated international law (Guardian, 11/20/03), which Perle said "would have required us to leave Saddam Hussein alone." Perle argued that French intransigence left the U.S. with "no practical mechanism consistent with the rules of the U.N. for dealing with Saddam Hussein," and therefore, Perle said, "I think in this case international law stood in the way of doing the right thing."