this is from the Onion, right?

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Perle concedes that the Iraq war was (is, for that matter) illegal. Well, I'm looking at a quote here, and he said, "I think in this case international law stood in the way of doing the right thing." which I think, yes, is approximately saying it was illegal, but it's more an incautious unspun statement that he believes that International Law is flawed, and that the only defense against a flawed law is to break it. Now, when are people going to start doing that with the Patriot act and what not?