Conformity Of War

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It’s been almost 7 years since US forces with troops attacked Iraq. Although the US military’s occupation in Iraq was successful within 2 months, it has drawn much attention from political viewers who wonder about the legality and the motives of the war for almost 7 years and questionings of the international community about war in Iraq are still going on. I think that it is largely because the governments of the United States couldn’t prove Iraq’s alleged possession of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) even if they had evidence that Saddam Hussein was working on any WMD and the attack on Iraq is illegal in the eyes of the world and the United Nations. Moreover, American military forces’ attack of Iraq increased the likelihood of another terrorist…show more content…
Many legal experts now describe the attack of Iraq as an act of aggression and violating international law and accuse Britain and the US. This is because there is no the authorization of the U.N. Security Council and Iraq had no WMD since 1992. Therefore, the sanctions were illegal crimes and the war on Iraq is an act of aggression in gross violation of U.N. Charter. UN Secretary General stated that “the use of force without Council endorsement would not be in conformity with the Charter". President Bush’s war campaign into Iraq is not justified under article fifty-one of the United Nations charter. That article which gives countries the right to invade another country in order to protect them cannot be used to justify this case. In this war, The United States of America was in no clear and present danger. The strike, which was described by government figureheads as a preemptive move to counteract the chance of Iraqi aggression, falls well beyond the boundaries of fair self defensive…show more content…
Since the invasion and Occupation, the crimes against the Iraqi people continue to accelerate. People are scared to walk out onto the streets because of suicide bombers and nothing has gotten better for a long time now. According to a study published in November 2004 in the Lancet, U.S. occupation forces in Iraq have killed more than 100,000 civilians between March 2003 and October 2004, the great majority of them are women and children. The rate of civilian deaths in Iraq under U.S. Occupation is far greater than anything perpetrated by the regime of Saddam Hussein. Further, tens of thousands innocent Iraqis, including children, are illegally imprisoned in hundreds of giant U.S-run concentration camps in Iraq in contravention of international law. Iraq is currently in turmoil and the mindless acts of random violence against innocent civilians keep going
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