Is the war in Iraq a justified war?

Question

reasons why?

Answer 1

Yes.

Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had disrupted international order by refusing to prove he had disarmed which in trun made very real a possibility that Iraqi weapons would have risked falling into the hands of a new breed of international terrorists eager to strike countries around the world with no advance warning.

A limited and carefully conducted war to bring about a regime change in Iraq was morally obligatory, not just right. Failure to act would heave been unjust.

For public authorities to fail to conduct such a war would be to put their trust imprudently in the sanity and good will of Saddam Hussein.

Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks threw the behavior of Saddam Hussein into an entirely new light and Hussein's behavior enhanced the potential danger Saddam Hussein posed to the civilized world a hundredfold.

It matters not that the weapons turned out not to be there. There was no way to know that ahead of time. International terrorists are seeking to procure such weapons and the deliberate appearance on the part of Hussein to be hainding such weapons combined with his proven and well known support of terrorsm presented a "clear and present danger."

The responsibility of determining whether Iraq poses a sufficient threat to justify war falls to civil leaders. Not only do civil authorities have a primary duty to protect the lives of their people, but they are also the closest to the facts and are privy to highly restricted intelligence information.

It would have been far more clear had we walked in on a nealry functioning nuclear warhead, or a vat of weaponized botulism, but that didn't happen. It also does not change what was and was not known in March 2003.

Answer 2

What war? President Bush in a public speach declared the war at an end,then your asking about a war doesn't make sense; the war has ended and now USA has an army of occupation in Irak,it has installed a government 'de facto' but
not de' jure'(no goverment of acountry is recognised internationally if its existence came to be under an army of occupation...) and there are insurgents in that country.These are the facts in hand;now rephrase the question...

Answer 3

How many of the people that answered this question have ever been to Iraq and seen firsthand whether it's justified or not? I have. I was just wondering.

Answer 4

Legally justifiable...
under the peace agreement (UN resolution 687) UNSOCOM was given the right and responsibility to inspect Iraq to ensure they didn't have WMDs.

When Saddam refused inspections, America was justified in ensuring that the peace treaty was enforced.

Current operations are seperate from that, we are essentially fighting to keep the peace and not look defeated in the eyes of the world.

Answer 5

Yes.

We removed a despot from power and liberated a country which we should have liberated back in '91. Saddam committed atrocities against his own people and through his own admission was stockpiling biological weapons. He was put on trial, tried, and sentenced to death by the citizens of “his” country. We did the right thing, and we continue to follow up by helping in the re-creation of their police and military infrastructure as well as their educational, energy, and water infrastructures.
That’s all before our continued support in assisting their government in eliminating known terrorist cells and pockets of resistance.

Jeff B, above me: If I suddenly, for whatever reason, walked around you carrying a gun (that is loaded as far as you’re concerned) and talking about how I will eliminate people like you from the face of the earth, I surely doubt anything you say to me will save you. Hell, would you try to talk me out of beating you mercilessly if we ever found ourselves in such a situation?

Answer 6

no the US has not even declared war that's how unjustified it is.

They went in on false CIA intelligence after receiving confirmed reports that Sadam had nothing.

They continue to occupy Iraq knowing there is nothing there and steal there resources .

They do not follow International law Guantanamo is the evidence of that .

They have an unsatisfactory reason to stay there that jeopardizes America more and more each day the hate for us grows.

How can you justify terror with more terror. You cannot start wars just because you think someone has the ability to nuke you this is just opinion and it can be used in the future to fight anyone we don't like if we continue to justify this way of thinking.

Answer 7

Our government made it legal and spun the propaganda. Of course it's justified.

Answer 8

If we pull the troops out, the country will collapse. We weren't justified in attacking, but we're justified in staying.

Answer 9

Are you or anyone in this forum qualified to answer this question????

Solutions and answers come with information! Information that is untainted by personal opinion (as is obviously expressed above!!!)

Answer 10

War can never be justified...period. Diplomacy, TALKING...that's the answer to any and all problems of humankind. We need to shut up as a nation and listen to what the rest of the world is saying about us and to us. Throw your I pods and I phones and TV's away and stop taking drugs and dieting and START VOTING...