Sent_en: 2id Wood advised Straw, then Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, that invading Iraq without the backing of the United Nations Security Council in the form of a specific mandate—which the resolution the government used to support the war lacked—would "amount to the crime of aggression", to which Straw responded that he was being "dogmatic and international law was pretty vague".
Sent_yy: Wood menasehati Straw, kemudian Sekretaris Negara untuk urusan Luar Negeri dan persemakmuran, yang menginvasi Irak tanpa dukungan dari Dewan Keamanan PBB dalam bentuk mandat-yang resolusi pemerintah digunakan untuk mendukung perang kekurangan-akan "jumlah tertentu untuk kejahatan agresi, " Straw menjawab bahwa ia bersikap "hukum dogmatik dan internasional cukup jelas."