Bush Right in Invading Iraq? Term Paper

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S. forces. Another is that a preemptive strike in Iraq was illegal as per international law. The financial cost of the war, the American casualties, and the terrorist violence in the post-Saddam are also quoted as evidence that the U.S. War in Iraq was a mistake. (Scheer)

While it is true that no Weapons of Mass Destruction have been found in Iraq, it must be remembered that WMDs were not the only reason for the Iraq War. The most compelling reason was the need to remove Saddam, a savage tyrant who had killed hundreds of thousands of his own Iraqi people who opposed him, as evident in the more than 300,000 bodies found in mass graves after the war. As for the legality of the war, the Iraqi regime was in violation of a number of Security Council resolutions and continued to defy them; hence military action against the regime in the circumstances cannot be termed illegal.
Regarding the high cost of the war, although even one human life lost is one too many, we must remember that brave nations sometimes have to endure great sacrifices in order to prevent greater calamities. When compared with the American soldiers killed in other wars such as the World War II (405,000), World War I (116,000) and the Vietnam War (58,000), the number of American soldiers killed in the Iraq war (about 1500) is far less. In view of the latest developments in Iraq and the Middle East region, therefore, more and more people including some former opponents of the war in Iraq are beginning to realize that President Bush was right in invading Iraq after all.

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