Of course everyone has different ideas and the whole point of free societies is that ideas are not suppressed. Suppose Tony Blair's war is in fact illegal, then simply denying the expression of that idea is absurd. He isn't a unilateral boss of the UK. He has to comply with laws.
Yes, he does... Just as Bush has to follow the direction of Congress when it come to waging war..
And guess what? The majority of Parliament, as well as the majority of the US congress, approved the use of force against Iraq in the face of a failure of Iraq to comply with UNSC resolutions.
And a congressional act, signed by the president, has force of law.
Thus, if Congress, representing the majority of the national will, deems it necessary to militarily act against Iraq, and it is certain that international law does not conflict with such an action, then IT'S NOT AN ILLEGAL WAR!!
Shoot... what if everyone acted in a manner that contravened the law of the land, just because they disagreeed with it? We'd have chaos...
If the law of the land is that our legislators feel we should be involved in a military action, then what right do the undermine the national defense?
Bush asked for, and obtained all the authority he needed to conduct military action in Iraq. The Senate and House intelligence committees had access to all the same intelligence that Bush had... The Clinton appointed CIA director, George Tenet, told Bush it was a "slam-dunk" case against Iraq. Every intelligence agency of the UNSC members all concurred that Iraq was in material breach of its UNSC cease fire.... So what more was necessary?
This is NOT all on the shoulders of the President. And neither should he bear the blame for any inaccuracies, real or perceived, with regard to the actual status of Saddam's WMD program.
And even without WMDs being found in Iraq, it's clear that Al Qai'da is operating in that country and we have an obligation, duty, and opportunity to confront and defeat them...
I'm sorry that there are millions of Iraqi's caught in the middle. It's sad and tragic that innocent people have died.
But far more Iraqis have died at the hands of the Islamo-Fascists than the Coalition. And while their goal is totalitarianism, our goal is to create a democratic society.
So what is there to protest about our goals?
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