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Back to what I mentioned in my other posts here -

- geopolitics was the reason and no sensible person would believe the US has spent trillions of dollars to get rid of Hussein just because he is a vicious criminal.

- the best possible scenario to result from the invasion is for democratic governance under law, to stabilize in Iraq. That would be very good, for sure. However, even that does not bear on the basic, bottom-line question: how does an individual carry moral responsibility for supporting his/her government's taking actions, in the absence of OBVIOUS clear and present danger, which result in 30,000 deaths?.

If you say the moral imperative of ousting Hussein and bringing democracy makes it worthwhile, then you are saying the ends justify the means, and in that case we are definitely on very different planets. Even if the ends are valuable in themselves.

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