Was the US justified in attacking IRAQ?

[morebeefplease]

Originally posted by iamcdn
assassination is legal in this case - i can't remember the reasoning (i saw it on cnn), but i believe that it has something to do with an act of war, he is the leader of the Iraqi army (republican guard) ... ill get my facts straight and hit up this thread in a bit

i think during war it is legal.

[prolangtum]

Its not like we meant to, is it our fault the Iraqis ran into our missles and bombs? Just a bad coincidence.

[TheGame1976]

How did this thread come back up?

[bigjim33]

i say hell yeah

[Keiser]

Originally posted by TheGame1976
How did this thread come back up?

who knows, someone dug it up by voting, i'm stayin out of it.... lol

[rockandroll]

Here's my $.02
I think it's a major turning point in U.S. history.
I think there was much more personal Bush pride at stake than people realize. The U.S. people were told, sacraficed their son's and daughters, and will pay the bill to go to war under the statement about all these weapons of mass destruction - none of which have been found. That they violated U.N. resolutions, which we slapped the U.N. in the face and did what we want when the vote didn't go our way. A great example of selective enforcement is Israel have been in violation of all the same rules that we attacked Iraq for but we haven't bothered them in. There's at least 20 countries that have been butchering their citizens for over 15 years, haven't bothered them.
Assination has always been illegal but that is one of the purposes our several of our "intelligence agencies".
Turning points: "suspected" targets can now be terminated anywhere in the world including U.S. citizens. We can not arrest, never charge, or reveal who, direct violations of the Constitution.
What about when Bush threatened to veto everything unless he was given, and I can remember the exact name, but it's still in effect at the moment, a package of powers that gives him "dictator type powers".
Americans are very patriotic, and I believe the current administrations used that to pull a real fast one over on the American people. There were comments about trying protestors for treason???Isn't that what this country is suppose to be about? The freedom of speech and to speak ones mind?
There's a lot to this, I just saying look at the pudding, the proof is not there.
An American citizen, former soldier.