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Originally Posted by Seaver
Let's say that your neighbor has severely abused/tortured 2 of his 5 kids. He had 2 favorite kids which ate lavishly and were never harmed. The fifth kid he killed. While knowing full well what's going on, you repeatedly call the Police. The Police tell him to stop, come over 7 times and each time give him lots of warnings. One day you find out that the Police are getting paid by the neighbor, who happens to be rich. You know full well that the neighbor will never stop, and after he dies the kids will go to his even sicker siblings. Your other neighbors keep asking you why you don't help, his remaining kids keep asking you why you don't help. One day you attempt to put an end to it, and the paid Policeman says what you did was illegal and that you should have gone to him to stop what was going on.
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Please don't stretch my analogies. Mine was apt, yours is silly.
The bottom line is that we had no legal right to invade Iraq and, even though we all agree that Saddam was a horrible monster, we did the wrong thing. We broke a treaty the US signed in good faith and we have done more damage (see: death toll) in the past 4 years than Saddam could have possibly done in the rest of his lifetime had we not invaded.