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Originally posted by happyraul
I don't really know much about the law, but I can tell you that given the fact that all of the reasons given to us for going to war in Iraq were not even justified, it was morally wrong to attack that country and involve ourselves in their affairs. If anyone truly believes that our attack was anything other than the US protecting economic interests at the cost of angering a lot of people, then you are either really naive or simply deluding yourself. The major difference between this operation and the one where we overthrew a democratically eleceted Chilean president when we feared for our economic interests is that the operation in Chile was carried out in secret, by the CIA. That wouldn't have worked in Iraq because Saddam is much less vulnerable than a constatutionalist president who trusted his country.
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Sign me up on the "naive" and "simply deluding myself" list. I don't find the war "morally wrong". I think more good will come out of it than for just US interests. Of course there are US interests and that is probably the leading factor, but regardless I think the side effects will be for the best.
There's the real bitch behind having morals, everyone has a different definition of "morally wrong" so who's right? The old moral relativism cop-out, is all I can give right now.