How could anyone justify the Iraq war after reading this?

Question

How does anyone justify the war in Iraq after reading, medal of honor winner, Charlie Liteky's address to U.S. forces in Iraq (2003):

http://www.mfso.org/article.php?id=85

Answer 1

I didn't read it after the first paragraph. I didn't need to....

How, exactly, does winning the medal of honor during Vietnam qualify one as an expert on the Iraq war?

Answer 2

I agree with fishguy. A Vietnam vet has nothing to do with, nor would he know much about the Iraq war. Next question.

Answer 3

Saddam put people into human shredders and electrocuted the genital's of males. Saddam promised to abide by a certain list of rules in order to end the first gulf war. He chose not and 17 times  resolutions were passed. 17 times he refused. He bragged about having WMDs and there is evidence of these weapons including the cabinet minister who was the minister of WMDs.  Maybe, you would ignore your neighbor if he said he had a stockpile of weapons and was going to use it on you, we chose not to do so.

Answer 4

Why go into the military if you know there is a chance you might go to war?

Answer 5

We are sociopaths.

Answer 6

If you look at war in this way or any other way and refuse to participate you will loose. Then where will you be?  Though some may interpet this as a game and some may find it a way to make money - others know and understand that it is sometimes the only way to preserve our (mine and yours) way of life.  

Answer 7

Come on now, the Iraq war was about more than that. Saddam Hussein was brought to justice, how could that possibly be a bad thing? Not to mention the safety and stability brought to the region and the establishment of free, democratic elections. This is a just war and Bush is a good president and a good man.

Answer 8

Everyone is entitled to an opinion..... This is Chaplin Liteky's personal opinion..... many of his facts are at best distorted and some are even wrong.... understandable if you are trying to support your anti-war bias

Gen Smedley came from a different era..... like the ugly Indian Wars it was not a time of pride in America.....the government was a tool of big business in many cases.....

BUT just because someone makes a profit from a war does not negate the need for that war.....New York merchants got rich selling to both sides during the Civil War.....does the fact that someone made a profit off the war mean we should not have freed the slaves??

In one aspect I sort of agree with Mr Liteky.....If we had taken a stronger line......even gone to war with Iran when they invaded in 1979.... The Iraq War would probably not be necessary......911 probably would not have occurred..... But we NEVER took a strong stand and that made America the "target du jour" for world wide terrorism..... Thank God President Bush had the courage to take action against this growing threat.....by invading Iraq America has been free of all terrorist attacks around the world for seven years.......... and despite Mr Liteky's contention..... we have demonstrably more friends and supporters around the world that ever before in our history

There is a long list of reasons that justified the Iraq War......the first fully justified American war in over 60 years.....

Mr Liteky's courageous actions during the Vietnam war does NOT bestow on him any special insight or intellectual superiority..... he is afterall just a man who did the right thing....and was in the right place

The fact that Mr Liteky was a Chaplin ..... a non-combatant / anti-war by profession..... reveals his penchant for an anti-war position which while possibly morally laudable...... does NOT mean he is correct

Under the proper conditions..... even God has supported war