A small point to Dragonlich: Germany declared war on the US out of its treaty obligation to Japan. Had they not done so, we most certainly would have- FDR and the rest of the government always saw the Germans as the bigger threat.
Also, are you trying to say that the side effects of the war (i.e. saving human lives, spreading democracy and freedom) are important enough to be new justification for it (to replace original justification of threat of WMD)? There are plenty of peoples I'd like to see living in freedom and democracy, it's too bad they aren't "sitting on a sea of oil"*, otherwise something would be done about it.
*Wolfowitz
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"In Iraq, no doubt about it, it's tough. It's hard work. It's incredibly hard. It's - and it's hard work. I understand how hard it is. I get the casualty reports every day. I see on the TV screens how hard it is. But it's necessary work. We're making progress. It is hard work."
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