The Iraq War 1

The Iraq War 1

The Iraq War, the Second Gulf War and Operation Iraqi Freedom were a military campaign that began on March 20, 2003, with the invasion of Iraq by U.S. troops. Prior to the invasion, the governments of the United States and the United Kingdom asserted that the possibility of Iraq employing weapons of mass destruction (WMD) that threatened their security. But here we are today, seven years later, with no evidence Iraq has ever had any WMD. This makes many Americans skeptical of the government and its motives for even entering the war.
It takes many elements to make a “Just War”. The theory has seven crucial components which all need to be met in order to make a war justified. The first element states the war needs to have a just cause meaning the act of self dense or dense of another country. The War in Iraq has been manipulated by politicians as revenge for the terrorist attack that occurred on September 11th, 2001. However, it has been indentified that Iraq had no ties or affiliation to the attack. The second component is the war has to be waged by a competent authority. This could mean a monarch or in the U.S. the agreement of Congress and the President. Not since World War II, have the Congress and President both agreed to declare war. The next point is that the cause of war needs to be for the right intention, an aim at peace. “Without the weapons of mass destruction, it has not been surprising to hear the administration now speak of the war in terms of liberty, liberation, and democracy.” (“Iraq”) Yet, with the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein captured then executed a year later in December 2006, the country is still in political turmoil. “The war in Iraq, on balance, was unjust. The speed of Saddam's fall does not negate this fact. Nor does the welcome moral reality of a dictator's defeat. And nor does the Bush Administration's wish to consider the overthrow of Saddam one step in a domestic and world campaign for "moral clarity."” (“Iraq”) American officials...

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