Was there any justification for the war in Iraq?

[RedBean]

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In that whole page your only point was that we have created Chaos and took out a government which posed no threat.

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The level of threat posed is debatable. Some would say it was immediate and unavoidable. Others would say it was no threat at all. I don't pretend to be smart enough or well placed enough to truly know which it is, or where in between those two extremes it actually rests.

What I do know is that whatever it was, it has been reduced. Does that mean we should just go to war pre-emptively with anyone who may pose a threat "just in case"? Of course not.

And personally, I think it serves as a significant deterrent and "show of strength" to other islamic nation's governments who may have had fancies to do the US harm...in so much that it let them know we aren't just going to sit around idly and take punches like we did from 1983-2001..., although it probably serves the opposite effect on the common, fundamentalist nutjob not in high level power and with nothing to lose, as the level of anti-west hatred in these ranks is inevitably on the rise.

[Cyrus]

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Would Cuba have been justified in invading and occupying the United States after our assassination attempts on Castro?

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Of course. And the USA would then have been justified in kicking Catro's ass.

[/ QUOTE ]Thanks for admitting that the over-riding, if not only, rule of your politics is Might Makes Right.

[Chris Alger]

Let's set aside for a minute that the evidence against Saddam is dubious, consisting of recanted confessions allegedly obtained by torture by anti-Saddam Kuwaitis.

Why isn't Saddam even being charged with this assassination attempt at his pending trial?

He is, however, being charged with killing 146 people in retalliation for an assasination attempt against himself. If Bush is repsonsible for a war that killed more than 30,000 people just because they live under the dictatorship of someone that tried to kill Bush's Dad, then Bush is the far greater criminal.