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Originally Posted by Genteel Death
Suchfriends- if that particular war should not be justified, in your opinion, which wars do you think have enough of a good reason to be justified?
I'm only asking because if you follow that line of thought all wars have the potential of being unjustified and randomly waged at the expenses of the attacking country's economy, since wars cost a heck of a lot of money, and can wipe off easily your administration's domain in a future election.
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war is NEVER justified. until folk understand that in the core of the being, then we will have these arguments, and in truth, people getting into
arguments like these are the very precursors to wars in the first place!
I-man live dedicated to peace. Even when outright defending yourself, war is messy, because what justifies killing innocent people in another country because the assholes who run it did something do another? Are Iraqis justified in suicide bombing my neighborhood because my country is at war with theirs, even though I am not in favor of the war? This is the kind of tricky situation war presents, when you wage war against somebody, you are inherently going to hurt innocents, it being unavoidable, then in fact war is unjustifiable.
As long as war is considered an option, then it will always become the only option, just like as long as you have a gun, in truth you are not likely to get into a fist fight, but in an altercation whether you planned it or not somebody is probably going to get shot.. war is the same. get rid of the option of war, and new solutions to our problems will naturally present themselves..
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Originally Posted by the ikara cult
My point is that arguements against Saddam have to extend to arguements about regime change in that country. Ive outlined my reasons for this already in this thread, if you disagree then fine, but you do have to answer what would have happened if we had left him in power in 2003?
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there are many many alternatives to military invasion and occupation to encourage a regime change, and as ni'k already said, the ends by no means justify the means. Killing a shit load of Iraqis and utterly DESTROYING the government, economy and normality of their nation is not a viable alternative to Saddam, as bad ass a mofo as he was
