Do you yhink it was right for the uk to invade iraq ,even though they had done nothing wrong?
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Hussien had done an awful lot wrong, including crimes against humanity, chemical warfare, and threatening international peace and stability. Threatening international peace and stability is one of the acts which gives rights to other countries, under the UN, to launch an intervention. However... no, I don't think it was right to invade Iraq. It was also legally contentious and was a major political and ethical mistake. The UK went in with the US for screwed reasons. If it had been something humanitarian minded, I would have been more on board. It wasn't though.
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At the time i thought it was right for us to invade Iraq, as the Saddam was a tyrant and i felt he did pose a threat to international security. However, in hindsight, i think it was wrong. They didn't have any weapons of mass destruction, and i think Saddam kept a tight grip on a country that only respects a ruler with an iron fist. It does appear that Saddam had better support amongst the population then we thought, and it maybe that he could have had a role to play as a popular arab tough guy that can contain terrorism, a man that we can bargain with, as we have recently started doing with Quaddafi. Whilst this view may appear to be unethical to some people, in retrospect, if we had not gone into Iraq, and Saddam had refrained from developing weapons of mass destruction and shared intelligence etc about Al Qaeda, i think the world would be a better place.
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It was completely right. But Britain sent unfortunately too few troops down there. Britain could show much more engagement in international affairs. If the USA need a partner I think the British are obliged to follow. So it is a very good politics that the USA and Britain are overtaking together Afghanistan and all other inept foreign troops can go home. Britain should show much more military engagement in the world at the side of the USA.
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