idiot
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I’ll get a post in before the topic is either closed or pruned.
This could be argued using semantics as a shield, however. UN Resolution 1441 never expressly condoned war as an enforcement mechanism, and so the whole of the Security Council did not endorse such an action prior to the conflict. Therefore, the war was a unilateral effort, without the UN’s backing. And so, from the UN’s perspective, it was indeed illegal. This would be an unimportant point, since the UN decries all kinds of global actions that it does not have the jurisdiction to stop, except that Bush clearly invoked Hussein’s past violations of UN resolutions as one of his initial reasons for invasion. The act of justifying the war using an organization that finds the conflict itself illegal was not one of this administration’s strongest arguments.First of all there's the opinion his (and our) actions are illegal, there is no justice system our president, or us as citizens, officially oblidge by that has decided any of this is illegal.

