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Subject: The war unjust?


Author:
Wade A. Tisthammer
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Date Posted: 12/16/04 12:42pm
In reply to: Damoclese 's message, "Why I am leary of the Democratic Platform" on 10/ 5/04 12:00am

>With making friends and alliances, that is ALWAYS a
>desirable end, but the question is what one is willing
>to sacrifice in order to make friends. Suppose that
>when we went to Iraq we found a horde of WMD's. Would
>our war have then been justified and to hell with the
>global community? Because we THOUGHT they did, and
>they didn't, does that then make our war unjust?

Yes!

The intelligence did sound somewhat promising, but there was no smoking gun. I wouldn't have gone to war in Iraq. Nonetheless, I was willing to say the war was justified if WMD's were found. Then I would admit the war was justified. But as we all know it didn't quite work out that way. I think it was a war made in good faith (some say Bush lied about it, but I think he honestly believed WMD's were in Iraq) but still "unjust" in the sense that it wasn't properly justified.

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The war unjust?QUITTNER12/20/04 10:10am
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