Personal opinions, no matter how strongly held, do not decide what is or is not permitted by the UN Charter. In the same way, I have a strong personal opinion about the guilt or innocence of Scott Peterson, but fortunately a court of law has to make that _legal decision_, not uninformed private citizens like you or me. Only the UN membership itself, and not Kofi Annan responding to a reporter's insistent questioning, is constituted to decide whether a particular military action is or is not allowed under the Charter.

No war receives universal approval within warring modern societies. Some extreme pacifists opposed the US involvement in World War II even after Pearl Harbor; some Germans were repelled by Germany's attack on Poland. It is only natural that personal feelings should run high either way in matters of war and peace.

Perhaps you will excuse my cynicism if I suggest that any declaration by the UN, the World Court, or any other body that the war in Iraq is somehow "illegal" (and I doubt that such a finding will ever be made,
will have little or no practical result. No decision makers in any nation will alter their views.