[How are nations to know what wars are just and what wars are unjust?]
Self defense, including the defense of a nation, is a legitimate cause.
That is the justification for the war we are currently in.
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So, because we were attacked on 9/11, we are at war in Iraq, a nation that had nothing to do with that attack, and you think that constitutes self-defense? You're an idiot.
A 'pre-emptive strike' (I think that's what Bush and Blair called it) does not equal self-defense. Hell, I supported the war at first because Saddam Hussein was a dickhead, but their real motives were clear: oil. As evidenced by the fact that Kim Jong Il, Robert Mugabe and various other dicks are still in power.
Not fundie, just neo-con propaganda. True, and there's enough material out there for a "Neocons Say the Darndest Things."
Try to keep up, Mr Randy; "self defence" was the official line cited as the reason to invade first (and that's a damn stretch in my book anyway) only when your people were able to bullshit the world into a mania about weapons of mass destruction; now that Iraq has been invaded and there is not a fucking shred of evidence for the promised masses of terrifying weapons, it is now more obvious than ever that Iraq never posed a threat to America (The only Americans anywhere that are, or ever were, in any danger from Iraq are the ones currently occupying the country). The new party-line, which they're now acting as if they had said all along, is that it was to remove a tyrannical dictator and free the Iraqi people, as if this makes it somehow OK the war was started on false pretenses.
Brain_iaj, methinks that even if Iraq was no military threat to the US (or any other country not in the middle east), it is easy for those twats to construct a cause of self-defense, by declaring the possible threat to Israel a need to intervene, or the Iraqi hold of oil a threat to economy and so on.
"When did Iraq attack us Bro?"
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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