Why did so many Westerners care about "legal justification" for invading Iraq?

Question

Essentially, a few lines of text on some documents in some dusty drawer somewhere say it's okay and it's therefore morally okay? Hardly.

Answer 1

Oh, I totally agree. I am just see a man saying:

"Sure I just molested a child, but I felt it was right, what does all these dusty documents in a droor have to do with anything...."

Nice try....just does not work that way.

Answer 2

In this day and age, legal justification is morally acceptable by the west and the rest of the world for
attacking Iraq. Saddam attacked Kuwait to get its oilfields
disrupting the world's economy and gas skyrocketting
to its highest levels. Many other factors led from one to
another like 9/11 abd the building of a nuclear bomb.In
the light of all this, going to war with Iraq was inevitable
and for once Bush did the right thing for his country"
interests.

Answer 3

Because we like to think that we do thinks correctly, legally and morally. We have a Constitution and it specifies that only Congress can declare war. But what did Congress do? You may recall that Bush the Elder told Congress that he didn't need their approval, the UN had given him permission to attack. And what did Congress do? Nothing! So why do we need Congress?

Did Iraq attack us? Even if the had the so-called Weapons of Mass Destruction existed, so what? China has them. Why are they tolerated in a Communist nation that has threatened to use them, but not Iraq?

Don't get the idea that I am defending Saddam. He is a murdering thug, like most politicians. It's just that we are supposed to be better. We are not supposed to attack someone because we don't like them. We are supposed to finish the war, not start it.

Answer 4

I remember the squeals in 1991 when they didn't invade Iraq, thus leaving many Iraqi's to be killed by Saddam for not supporting him. Why didn't they invade? because the UN hadn't granted a mandate for them to do so. Strange, isn't it? that an invasion at that time, would have had pretty much universal support. However, the US followed the UN mandate. Also, our TV media weren't so politically involved with their own agenda.

I still firmly believe that Blair had to tell porkies to his back benchers to get them to support the recent invasion (already promised to Bush), otherwise, they wouldn't have agreed to it. Bearing in mind, that Socialists hardly ever agree to invasion or other overt action, whatever the underlying reason.

Answer 5

Larry- It grow to be a UN determination the U. S. used to invade Iraq. in simple terms because of the fact the U. S. Congress says that is high-quality, would not make it so, to any extent further than the German government asserting the invasion of Poland grow to be felony. In answer to the question, it has to do with the Zionist lobby and Israel being a shopper state of the U. S.. owing to countries like the U.S. and now america of a having veto powers, the UN has no skill. the only answer is a revamping of the UN, however the U. S. could veto it.

Answer 6

Oh yes there is...it is called the inaleinable right to exsist! Anytime you fly jets into buildings, threaten domestic tranquility that nation or people Have the right to defend themselves and their property or interests. Any action, brings about an equal and opposite reaction. That is the morality of it and NO IT IS NOT OKAY!

You can choose to be so poliically correct that you can sit there and allow any body to do anything to you whenever they feel like it, but people like that also tend to believe that everything is REALTIVE. and there are no absolute truths.

Answer 7

There are two points here.
Firstly it is still open to debate whether the invasion was legal under international law. Many believe it was not.

Secondly, the reason the political leaders care is because they are immune from pretty much all prosecution except for illegal acts of war under international law. If it wasn't legal effectively it's a war crime.

Answer 8

What are you talking about-" legal justification" is from the U.N. there the reason this war has started even though every one is
trying to blame Bush because they have not educated themselves properly.

Answer 9

Wait till they come knocking on your door. If it's a question of legality, that means the lawyers can get involved and make a lot of money. It also means the politicians can pass the buck. "Wot? Not me, guv! See 'im over there? He's the one wot said it'd be orright."

And without laws and democracy, we wouldn't have lawyers and wouldn't that just be terrible!

Answer 10

There is only one law in the world"MIGHT IS RIGHT".There is no moral ground for war in Iraq.USA wanted to have control over oil resources (Black Gold).Besides the ARMS INDUSTRY lobby in USA wanted to boost their sales.War gave much impetus to the sagging US economy.