When the war that ousted the Saddam dictatorship was triggered by maintaining that
     Iraq possessed tons of weapons of mass destruction and posed an immediate threat
     to Britain and the U.S., members of the European parliament were seen brandishing
     posters pronouncing their opinion about this war. It was "ILLEGAL, " the posters said.
     And the US as well as the British government were in contempt of international law.

European Parliament in session

     This position has been underlined again recently by UN secretary-general  Kofi Annan.

     And on Nov. 5, 2004 it became known that in a letter to the Bush administration, 
     Mr. Kofi Annan urgently warned the U.S. government against carrying out a violent 
     attack aimed at Fallujah, a city of some 300,000 inhabitants.

                   According to Reuters, UN secretary Annan  warned against 
                   military action targeting civilians.
                   Mr Annan said that instead, elections were "the keystone in a
                   broader process to restore stability and legitimacy in Iraq". 
                   "If the January 2005 elections are to contribute to this critically
                   important objective, and not to fuel further divisions and
                   instability, it is essential that current efforts to attract a broader
                   spectrum of Iraqis to join the political process should succeed,"
                   the UN secretary maintained. He also pointed out that 
                   "[t]he threat or actual use of force not only risks deepening the
                   sense of alienation of certain communities, but would also
                   reinforce perceptions among the Iraqi population of a continued
                   military occupation [...]" 

By now the attack is under way, and this despite that fact that Mr. Kofi Annan has been issuing his caveat against a military strike targeting an occupied town long after the illegal war was formally declared over by Mr. Bush. The UN Secretary-General's statement may well  have been informed by a sharp  awareness of the continuity of past and present colonialist and neo-colonialist violence. Unimpressed by his intervention,  both the U.S. government and the British government have chosen to ignore this warning issued by the top representative of the international community. 

The attack drew a mixed response from the Allawi regime installed by the US military.
"Using force that kills civilians on a large scale is a mistake. 
The logic of occupation must end," interim deputy Foreign Minister Hamid al-Bayati said.

Meanwhile, the Minister of Industry stepped down in protest, condemning the attack on Fallujah.