Iraq War: Was It Really Justified?

Essay by ozgurmadranUniversity, Bachelor'sA, March 2011

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ABSTRACT

After 12 years from the end of the Gulf War in 1991, the United States and Britain kept up a low-level conflict with Iraq and declared that their goal was to end the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein, and insisted that Iraq be disarmed of mass destruction weapons. In early 2002, the Bush administration announced that it considered Iraq to be part of an "axis of evil." Though United Nations arms inspections made increasing progress after their return in November and a large Security Council majority insisted that the inspections continue, United States invaded Iraq in alliance with Britain on March 20, 2003.

The essay is effects on the wabout whether we beleive in iraq war or not and what are the post war orld? I will discuss these issues with respect to what the american thinks and what the iraqi people think about this war. I will conclude it with my opinions about the war.

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IRAQ WAR: WAS IT REALLY JUSTIFIED?

INTRODUCTION

The law shared by many nations in the world states that "We the peoples of the United Nations, determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, and to ensure, by the acceptance of principles and the institution of methods, that armed force shall not be used, save in the common interest, have resolved to combine our efforts to accomplish these aims.�" The first article of the Charter says that the purpose of the United Nations is to "maintain international peace and security" and to suppress "acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace".� However, when the United States and its British allies declared their own war against Iraq in March 2003, and forcing invasion into another country like Iraq without...