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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Neocon who wrote (109036)7/31/2003 1:18:15 PM
From: GST  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
Our war on Iraq is immoral and illegal. One person -- an individual person -- applying their own morality and acting so as to take the law into their own hands and kill a man, cannot define what is right and wrong for the community and cannot act with sanction from the community. Communities make laws and live by them. Individuals live within the confines of community. In the United States, you cannot kill a man in cold blood and then claim that it was ok because the man you killed was a child molester, or a murderer, or a rapist. You could kill the man only in self-defense. Only the community has the moral authority to arrest the man, try him in a court of law and execute him if the law allows, but you, as a citizen, cannot summarily judge and kill the man on the street -- that would be illegal and immoral -- that would be murder no matter what crime the dead man committed.

All that applies to the individual applies to the United States in the world community. We are not the law. We are an individual state in a community of states, and all that applies to the individual also applies to the individual state. What we are doing in Iraq is immoral and illegal. It would have been immoral and illegal even if we found WMD.
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