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To: SARMAN who wrote (195896)	8/7/2006 9:28:28 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Does the US have a justification to invade Iraq? You can argue about whether there was sufficient justification or not, reasonable people can disagree about that, but there certainly was justification, from violating the cease fire, to enforcing UN resolutions, to Saddam's history as a violent troublemaker, to his 30 year reign of terror and abuse on the Iraqi people. Absent the addition of an active WMD program it can be argued that there was not sufficient justification, particularly in practical terms, meaning you could argue that it wasn't worth the cost and the difficulty of dealing with the insurrection and the sectarian violence. But if all the violence was over when Baghdad fell than I think the action would have been clearly justified. Or to put it another way it can reasonably be argued it was a bad idea, but it wasn't a horribly unjust idea.