To: Raymond Duray who wrote (238610 ) 6/23/2005 4:30:47 AM From: Elroy Read Replies (1) | Respond to You mentioned that you don't know any neocons. I find that curious since they infest SI. I believed that the Saddam regime was genocidal and that the international community had a responsibility for doing something about it. That is why I said that removing Saddam would be a noble enterprise. In and of itself, it was, and I stand by that. But the other value is the rule of law. The United States is signatory to the UN charter, and can't just get up in the morning and decide to go about invading other countries. I all along maintained that an Iraq war would be legitimate only if there were a UN Security Council resolution authorizing it. I did not see the invasion, the war, or the subsequent occupation as legitimate. If he had remained within international law, he would have either had to give up the invasion or he would have gone in with the full support the international community, which would have given him the kind of troop strength and administrative expertise that might have made a success of it all. The response to this posting on the part of my critics will just be more propaganda, more carping, more cheap shots, more obfuscation.
