Why is the iraq war an unjust war?

Question

-just cause

Answer 1

It is not an unjust war. It was labeled that by people who hate our current President. Had President Bush found a way to pay of the national debt they would be bi**hing about that. Some people just hate the USA and everything we stand for. What is really bad is that many of them get to do so because they are American citizens and enjoy the privileges but accept none of the responsibilities.

Answer 2

“preemptive strike”  = unjustified attack

Germans also used preemptive strikes.

I’m sure it was completely justified, the Iraqi army could have launched a massive invasion by rowing their troops to Florida and storming the beaches. The locals would think its just Cubans. But little do they know this mass force will take over the US with 17 RPGs and a slingshot.

Answer 3

Because Iraq has nothing t do with AL Qaida or terrorism. Freedom of Iraqi people as an excuse got mixed up with the lie of Bio Wapons and Al Qaida connections. All lies in order to invade a country that is rich of Oil an didnt want to sell it to USA for a cheap price. These are facts and if you deny these facts you are either uneducated or an IGNORANT. It has nothing to do with being liberal or conservative or hating or liking Bush.

Answer 4

We went into the war on false assumptions and flat out lies by the Bush administration. We have spent Billions of dollars rebuilding a nation that we destroyed and there was no purpose to the war. They did not harbor terrorists who were responsible for 9/11 nor did they have any WMD's to use against us or any other country for that matter. The war is unjust because it was fought due to the idea of Saddam being a imminent threat to the security of this nation. In fact he was hardly a threat to this nation.

Answer 5

It depends on what you base your point of view on. You can establish a convincing argument that it is a just war and on the other hand you can establish an argument that the war is unjust. It all depends on what you are most focused on at the time.

Answer 6

It is a just war.  The Administration should have just been more clear on the reason for going to begin with.  Removing a murdering tyrant who's terrorizing his own people and openely endorsing the destruction of the US is never a bad thing.  Hussein had no place in his black hole of a heart for any of us in the US, let alone the majority that opposed him in his own country.

Answer 7

Because there's still no evidence that Hussein was working with Al Qaida nor was he developing weapons of mass destruction. It's been pretty well established by several credible sources that the current administration knew these, but pushed for the war anyway to satisfy their own personal agenda.

Answer 8

because liberals hate Bush

Answer 9

Cause Democrats don't want to earn the right to be an American. They rather sit in their air conditioned rooms and whine about the things they don't have.....like votes.

By the way, Russian, US, and English Intelligence all agreed there were WMDs in Iraq, so don't blame Bush.

Answer 10

If the intelligence was truly false or was forged than it would be a War Crime. If it was a forgone conclusion to attack Iraq just because Sadam tried to kill Daddy than it was unjust. However we will find out in about 15 years what they really knew at the time.

Answer 11

- no WMD's

- Al Qaida are from Saudi Arabia

Answer 12

It's not. We liberated the Iraqi people and rescued them from a ruthless dictator. We are taking the war on terror to their shores instead of letting them come to ours and kill more of our citizens.

What's unjust about that?

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Answer 13

No the ideals of invading Iraq were correct we should do the same in Zimbabwe and kick out the African n**i

Answer 14

it was instigated by a lie, not an untruth but a lie.  they knew there were no wmd's   that constitutes a lie and 4500 deaths due to a lie is unacceptable, immoral and d**n right wicked. and if it's all about peace and freedom why dont they liberate the sudan or the congo where millions have been mutilated and left to rot in the sun.  left's not be naive.  the war is all about  O.I.L.  Oil, Israel and Logistics

Answer 15

It's not.... only the lunatics like Bill Maher and Keith Oberman say such silly things.

The "war" is simply a CONTINUANCE of hostilities from the 1991 CEASE FIRE that is governed and justified by a series of United Nations Resolutions, most notably UN Resolution # 1441.

"Unjust war" is phrase used by people who want to show the rest of us how poorly educated they really are.

Answer 16

Technically, I'm not sure it is.  It's nothing like war in the conventional sense, but more of a giant cluster ****.  The U.S. military in Iraq is fighting a guerrilla war on multiple fronts against any number of sects, tribes, terrorist groups, and insurrgencies who's members are indistinguishable from, because they ofen are, ordinary citizens.  Bush gave so many ever changing reasons for the U.S. invasion that I lost track.  The most compelling reason for the invasion at the time of the invasion was the threat of a mushroom cloud, or in other words, a nuclear attack initiated by Saddam Hussein against the U.S.  The right wingers will point to all the Demcrats and other nations who said at various times that there were W.M.D.s in Iraq.  This is a massive cop out.  As President of the United States Bush's only obligation was to listen to the reports of his own intelligence agencies and the U.N. inspectors.  The U.N. reports as well as those of all 16 of the intelligence agencies under Bush clearly stated that Saddam didn't have nuclear weapons nor the means to make them.  Bush was told this repeatedly before his administrations "mushroom cloud" references, which raises the question of why U.S. troops were really sent to Iraq.  There were no post invasion plans.  The intent of the U.S. invasion, judging by the results, seems to have been to create as much chaos in Iraq as possible.  Again, one has to ask why?  To this date the goals for Iraq, at least as far as the media is concerned amount to a vague reference to victory with no clear explaination of what that might mean or how that would look.  Getting Iraq to it's pre invasion stability still looks like it would be a long, steep, uphill climb especially since most of the people qualified to make it happen have been killed or fled the country.  Unjust war?  Huge mistake?  Complex and inscrutable conspiracy?  I wish it were that simple.  I'm not sure we'll ever know just what it is.  4,000 U.S. military and over 100,000 Iraqi civilian lives seems like a high price to pay for something I don't understand.

Answer 17

The move on Iraq was justified by the standards set forth by the "Just War" theory. You should review it.

Keep in mind that we are not at war with Iraq. Quite the contrary, we are there to support the Iraqis and help them put their country back together and run it themselves.

We are in a war against terror. That's very different. And the war against terror is indeed justified.

Answer 18

I don't think it's unjust at all.

-Hussein Smith:  Who said there were no WMD's there?  Go sit on the flightline at BIAP and smell the mustard gas in the mortar rounds.  Or better yet, go to Fallujah and take a walk in the 400,000 square foot underground warehouse.  Don't make yourself look stupid by making asinine assumptions about something you know nothing about.

Answer 19

You question is flawed. You are under the very wrong assumption that everyone agrees that the war is unjust.  

Answer 20

Not one person can honestly claim that the war is unjust and for that matter claim that it is just. Remember when we first thought about invading Iraq, most of the American people wanted it because we feared Saddam and the WMD's he might have had. Since then we've found nothing but some minor traces. The news doesn't tell everything and neither does our gov't. So the reality is, no one knows the right answer.

Many now believe it is unjust for many reasons. First, we've not found the WMD's we thought Iraq possessed (it took years to find out about the Holocoust too!), to many American military members have lost there lives or been wounded, our economy has taken a huge dive, and the Iraqi people hate us and don't want us there.

What we should do:

Pack up our c**p and leave. Let them kill themselves and support themselves. They'll starve or be invaded by another country. Same sh$t different day. All we need is the oil. So we can place a few detachments in and around oil platforms and pipe the oil home, as repayment of our losses to liberate Iraq. We need to concentrate on Afgahnistan.

Answer 21

All war is unjust.

Answer 22

You're assuming (and we all know what happens when you assume) that it IS an unjust war.  You can spew the news media's sensationalized accusations all you want, but you can't tell the guys who witnessed first hand the discovery of WMD that they don't exist.  Just because it never made the news doesn't mean they weren't there.  You think terrorists aren't operating out of Iraq?  How naiive are you, anyway?  Just because you're not hearing about it doesn't mean it's not there.  Whine and cry about the military "listening in" to American communications (which we're not, by the way), but you sleep in your comfortable beds every night completely clueless about how many serious terrorist attacks have been countered quietly and under the cover of classification so you could feel warm and cozy about your sheltered life.

Think what you want, I don't care.  There are those of us out there who know the truth, and we're fighting for your right to be ignorant.  Burns you up, doesn't it?