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Aside from, at this late date, the point being somewhat moot, the US had the LEGAL authority to take the actions in question. It was simply enforcing UN Security Counsel Resolutions. This, however, is merely a legal spin to the true reason for the invasion.

George W. Bush felt it neccessary to invade Iraq and take down Saddam Hussein (a madman, and fully worthy of being removed) because he needed to appear to take action in response to the 9/11 attacks of 2001. The whole Afganistan invasion thing hadn't done him any good, and he needed to look strong in order to be reelected.

The fact that Iraq is better off without Saddam is a bonus. Legally, Bush was in the right. Morally? I don't judge anyone's morals but my own.

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This war was illegal, because it is against the resolutions of the United nations and against the international laws. Now Iraq is in a worser situation than under Saddam, more than 100 000 civilian victims till todays and the bloodshed is not over. Also the media are citing the "syndrome of the Gulf" only when it concerns the occupation army marines. And what about the "syndrome of the Gulf" suffered by the Iraqis. The radiation even in the uranium depleted bombs is very harmfull for the health of the exposed, no matter West people or Iraqi people. Well, the legal grounds are out of discussion. There are no such ones.
About the human rights and "the iraqi freedom", why the war coalition didn't free Cuba? It could be nearer and cheaper. The pros-war are human rights bound, aren't they? There no more stupefied people to believe in the "humanitarian" war. This war is ruthless as the oil
crusade is a rutheless project.
About Saddam and the other prisoners of war. Are their human rights respected? The published degrading pictures of Abu Ghraib reply to this question instead of the human rights campaigners. Where are they hidden now? No dictatorship or a genocide regime in the human history had ever published degrading pictures of its detainees. There is no one picture of the detainees of the nazi camps, neither of the Soviet Goulag.
So the modern hatred apprentices had surpassed the torture masters of the past times.