Former attorney general Lord Goldsmith Wednesday described how he gave the ""green light"" for military action against Iraq just a month after expressing concerns about the legality of the war.

Giving evidence to the Iraq Inquiry, Lord Goldsmith said he personally presented a draft opinion to Tony Blair in January 2003 in which he raised questions about the legal basis for the use of force.
But the following month - after meeting U.S, government lawyers in Washington - he returned to No 10 to tell Mr Blair's senior advisers they did not need specific authorization from the United Nations.
Lord Goldsmith said he was asked to provide formal legal advice in December 2002 following the passing the previous month of United Nations Security Council resolution 1441, requiring Iraq to give up its supposed weapons of mass destruction.
In his initial five-page draft opinion, which he gave to Mr Blair on January 14, he warned that he still believed a further resolution was necessary, specifically authorizing the use of force.