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Okay, as some of you may recall, I do not support the war on Iraq because I think the war vs. terrorism belonged elsewhere and I think the war vs. Iraq was made, more than anything, just to start a war somewhere in the Middle East -- the thing the war on terrorism lacked was venue.
That said, it would be a hard case to make that the war vs. Iraq was illegal. To show it was illegal, you would have to show that when the UN said, in several resolutions, that "all measures" would be taken to assure Saddam had disarmed, that the UN explicitly did not mean ending the cease fire (there was no peace, only cease fire, following desert storm).
The war on Iraq was legal for the basic reason that it was up to Iraq to prove it had no WMD, and it did not. As we now know, it did not have WMD, but at the end of the Gulf War it made promises to PROVE it did not have them, and it failed - horribly - to follow through with these promises of proof, even to the extent of expelling, time and again, the UN inspectors.
So, the rest of the world would ultimately be SOL on proving the war illegal. What can I say, other than we have the best lawyers on the planet? :shrug:
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