(July 14, 2012 at 10:25 pm)Polaris Wrote: I am asking this because I see one of the root causes of the Invasion of Iraq was a desire to bring about justice (as well as getting oil) against Saddam Hussein (later it was found he was much worse than we had earlier thought...the gassing of the Kurds after the Persian Gulf War)False premise, so the conclusion is useless.
1) The Bush campaign, long before 1999, had decided to invade Iraq.
2) The ostensible reason in 2003, even though the administration had been given evidence that it was false, was that Hussein had a stockpile (in 2003) of WMDs.
3) We were perfectly okay with his gassing of the Kurds - as long as he was our puppet. As we were with almost all dictators we were "running" in the latter half of the 20th century. We not only didn't complain about their barbarity, we supplied them with the means to carry it out. We only complained when they went against our interests. We never complained when they killed their own people.
Justice? That would be bringing the Bush administration to task (legally, as in LONG prison sentences) for the unwarranted invasion of a sovereign nation.
Am I in favor of such justice? Certainly. Without the threat of punishment we become a complete anarchy, with everyone doing what he wants, regardless of any "rights" anyone else may claim (unless he can personally enforce them). Even 30,000 years ago we were more civilized than that.
