Comment Re:And yet more evidence that Iraq was a huge mist (Score 1) 547
Dude, really? Seriously?
Bush and his lapdog Blair did not try to justify GW2 on the basis that the conditions of the ceasefire that stopped GW1 had been breached. At no stage were arguments explicitly being made that the war was to be a continuation of the earlier Gulf war. To attempt to use that as retrospective justification is poor.
Bush and Blair built a knowingly fraudulent case for war based on "intelligence" they knew to be unreliable, flimsy, and possibly faulty. Their case was that Iraq had WMDs and was a threat to the security of the world and needed to be removed. The weapons inspectors and nuclear inspectors were loudly proclaiming that there was no evidence at all that Iraq had any WMDs, but they were getting shouted down by Bush and his cronies and their evidence ignored. Those with more than half a brain could plainly see at the time that the war was not justified. Millions of people protested in the US, in the UK, and across Europe, against this proposed war.
Whether or not Iraq is better off for the removal of Saddam and his sons is irrelevant to this argument. That is not a justification for war.