(July 6, 2016 at 8:56 pm)Aractus Wrote:(July 6, 2016 at 9:45 am)Faith No More Wrote: It's not a strawman. You said she should have gone for a peaceful, diplomatic solution, and I'm just wondering how someone is supposed to go about that when a murderous dictator is involved.
I refer you to this commentary on the Chilcot report:
"P McGeough, Canberra Times Wrote:
Defenders of the Iraq invasion invoke all kinds of justifications – and some have a certain logic.
But here's the thing – if those justifications were the benchmark for must-do, morally or humanitarian-based interventions around the globe, we could be invading a different country each month. Chilcot make the point that were that the rationale to be applied, the assessment at the time of British intelligence was that Iran, North Korea and Libya were greater threats than Iraq, in terms of the proliferation of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.
I've said this since the Bush Administration started plumping the war in 02.