 | lmorovan (12)
05/11/2008 | Many seem to forget that the war of 1991 was never ended, no peace treaty was signed. We continued to be in a state of war with Iraq after 1991, even as hostilities ceased. The mistake is not the current "war", it is the failure to finish the job started in 1991. Saddam Should have been removed from power then. Because of our hesitation, the situation in Iraq deteriorated to a point that we needed to finish what we started.
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 | LanceRoxas (40)
12/09/2005 |  There is nothing in the traditional understanding of just war tradition that precludes preemptive strikes nor anything to limit military action to purely reactive military engagements after a nation has already been hit. The world learned much from the appeasement of Adolph Hitler, yet some are willing to make the same mistakes in a world that exists in greater peril- that of nuclear weaponry. Saddam Hussein violated 17 United Nations resolutions and in the process thumbing his nose at the world body. I ask how should a nation considered "hostile" be dealt with when sanctions are only doing more harm to those we wish to help? With more sanctions? This war was just primarily because the war in 1991 was just and Saddam continually violated the provisions of that cease fire agreement. This war was for a just cause as we are beginning to see now, the blossoming of a democracy where one never stood. No torture chambers. No killing fields. No brutal dictator or his sadistic sons. A hope for a brighter future.
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 | magellan (153)
10/10/2005 | There's no question that Saddam did countless unjust things to countless victims. Whether or not this was the Bush Administration's primary motivation to commit us to war is anyone's guess. It certainly wasn't how the war was sold to the American public.
Personally, I would say that humanitarian reasons were not the primary reason we invaded Iraq, but i'm sure it factored in.
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