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| | The World Today - Gareth Evans: invasion of Iraq was illegal |
 | | GARETH EVANS: Well with the benefit of hindsight now, I think that you can see that UN processes would have delivered a far more sensible result — namely, wait to see what the inspectors turn up, don't plunge into an exercise in military adventurism without being very confident that it's justified. |
 | | But the world would be a better place for having another, roughly at my count, 40 or 50 tyrants locked up, and how many of them are going to be locked up as a result of military crusades of this kind, which have the effect, as we've seen, of creating more problems than they solve. |
 | | GARETH EVANS: I've always thought it is important, and appropriate, that Saddam Hussein be tried by the Iraqis, not by the internationals. |
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