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Originally posted by Spanky
Had to prove to whom? Saddam Hussein broke the treaty that ended the Gulf War. So there was plenty of legal justifications to go to war. If you think all international law is bunk, well then we didn't need a justification.
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You are speaking past each other. I don't think sebby was framing this in the formalistic sense, he was addressing it from a practical perspective. In order for W to be able to sell the war to the American people, he had to prove that the threat was imminent. There are many things that we can do legally that are nevertheless unwise.
