Justification of the War in Iraq Despite contrary belief, the Iraq War can certainly be justified. This war began in 2003 with the invasion of Iraq by U.S troops under the command of former president, George W. Bush. This invasion can be vindicated for several reasons. The greatest is that Iraq was a severe menace to its own people due to a corrupt and distorted government, spearheaded by the dictator, Saddam Hussein. Furthermore, Iraq was a substantial threat to other nations in the world, including the United States of America because of its previous possession of weapons of mass destruction and ties with terrorist groups. It would be misleading to not mention the economic gains that motivated the American government to occupy Iraq. However, as a whole, the U.S involvement in the Middle East was, without a doubt, warranted. Under the regime of Saddam Hussein, no Iraqi citizen was safe. It is estimated that under his control, over 600,000 people were brutally murdered although no one can really know the exact number. This is attributable to the fact that Saddam’s associates were not known to document many of the tortures, rapes, and vicious slaughters. Those who were merely thought to disparage Saddam’s administration were often targeted. Many of the executions were performed by the paramilitary group, the Fedayeen Saddam, piloted by Saddam’s oldest son, Uday, who was infamous for raping and torturing young girls. They were known to “make the women kneel in busy city squares, along crowded sidewalks, or in neighborhood plots, then behead them with swords.” One of the most distinguished of Hussein’s atrocities took place in 1988 when Saddam sent 200,000 troops to carry out the Anfal Campaign. This drive was meant to eradicate the ...
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The Dooley line runs through the faux Gulf of Tonkin Incident to fake stories from Gulf War 1.0 of Iraqi troops throwing infants from their incubators to Gulf War 2.0’s non-existent WMDs to Gulf War 3.0’s “Save the Yazidi’s” rationale for America re-entering a war already lost twice. “Saving” things was a common sub-theme, just as Vietnam was to be saved from Communism. It was no surprise that one of the last American acts of the Vietnam War was “Operation Babylift,” where thousands of children were flown to the U.S. to “save” them.
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Laws exist to protect life and property; however, they are only as effective as the forces that uphold them. War is a void that exists beyond the grasps of any law enforcing agency and It exemplifies humankind's most desperate situation. It is an ethical wilderness exempt from civilized practices. In all respects, war is a primitive extension of man. Caputo describes the ethical wilderness of Vietnam as a place "lacking restraints, sanctioned to kill, confronted by a hostile country and a relentless enemy, we sank into a brutish state." Without boundaries, there is only a biological moral c...
War is the means to many ends. The ends of ruthless dictators, of land disputes, and lives – each play its part in the reasoning for war. War is controllable. It can be avoided; however, once it begins, the bat...
No matter how well intentioned the invasion of Iraq may have been, it was an act of violence and deception that has left many American men dead for no clear reason.
Jus ad bellum is defined as “justice of war” and is recognized as the ethics leading up to war (Orend 31). Orend contends that an...
In September 1980, a very destructive war with Iran was started by Saddam Hussein. This was a result of an invasion in Iran. This invasion spurred an eight year war. Saddam used c...
A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain ...
The Bush administration claimed that they intended to protect the American people from the imminent or future attacks by Saddam from the weapons of mass destruction. They further claimed that their goal was to install the much needed democracy in Iraq. What surprises is the fact that these arguments were not questioned as it should in the US media. The Iraqi war was depicted as USA verses Iraq or Bush verses Saddam. The perception assumed that the only players were Bush and Saddam and the goal being to win the war.
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With the motive of freeing Iraqi citizens from the dictator Saddam Hussein and disabling Saddam’s weapon of mass destruction, the attack on Iraq was a joint effort by many countries like U.S., U.K. and other European countries. With the sentiments of fear it was really necessary to make sure that there is no second 9/11. It was easy to gather forces under the name of justice against all those who can be a threat to
The War Against America - The National Defense - NYTimes.com. (2001, September 12). Retrieved December 8, 2013, from http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/12/opinion/the-war-against-america-the-national-defense.html?ref=sept112001
The United States has gone to war since 1898, in response to attacks made on America. These attacks that have caused the United States to enter war include violent aggressions and threats made on America and America’s ideologies like democracy. This theory of why America has gone to war can be seen in the Spanish American War, World War 1, World War 2, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the War on Afghanistan.
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