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When dealing with two nations, who decides what is "legal"? Was it legal for us to invade Iraq? Some think so.
Legal has no real meaning when dealing with separate nations unless you think someone like the UN has power over all nations.
Moral? Well I guess I see ending slavery as a moral plus, so I would say they had the moral right to do what they did. perhaps you see slavery different than I do.
1. The difficulty of international law is real. But that is not a reason to not discuss it. These questions are still relevant, as noted by how upset some of the people in this thread have gotten over them.
2. FUCK THE UN.
3. Slavery? Funny, Lincoln's stated reason for the war was to preserve the Union.
1. So, did the US have the legal and moral right to invade Iraq?
2. Something we agree on!
3. And it was the stated reason for the south to leave the union.
1. Yes, of course, based on failure to comply withe the peace agreement from the FIrst Gulf War.
2. Thank you.
3. But not the legal justification for secession. THe SOuth's claim was that they had a right to secede. If you have a right to do something, you have the right to do it, and asking why is moot.
YOU agree with them on that.
1. Could not disagree more.
3. I agree they had the right to leave and I agree the Union had the right to stop them. Not unlike the British empire trying to stop the 13 colonies from leaving.
1. What legal problem to you see in the Iraqi War?
3. Your Justification for the actions of the Union seem thin.
1. There is no legal problem because legal does not exit if you do not agree with the UN.
On the moral side, we invaded a sovereign nation that was zero threat to this nation at the cost of more than 4000 American lives, 30,000 plus wounded ,more than 200,000 brain injuries and more than 2.4 million dollars and counting. That does not even touch the more than 30,000 Iraqi civilians and the troops from the other nations we bullied into joining us.
And the end result was a region worse off than before we invaded and the rise to power of ISIS, which is directly linked to our invasion of Iraq
There is nothing to justify, they won. Every nation on the planet took their land form someone else, that is the way it works