The Us Had No Right To Wage A Premptive War Against Iraq
Submitted by vcsnover on September 7, 2008
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The United States had no right to wage a pre-emptive war against Iraq. President Bush based his decision to go to war on faulty intelligence reports and he lied to the American people concerning the reason he used to justify the conflict (Wilson, 2004). He told the American people that Saddam Hussein and the nation of Iraq posed an imminent threat to the Unite States and its allies in the region. The President said that Iraq had stockpiles of WMD’s (weapons of mass destruction). He also claimed that Iraq was trying to develop nuclear weapons that could be used against the U.S. and its allies (Woodward, 2004). None of those things have been proven to be close to any degree of truth. The President mislead the citizens of the United States and gravely underestimated the Iraqi people when he declared in May 2003 that, “major combat operations,” were over in Iraq. Little did...