Heading into war in IRAQ

To delve into another part about the war on iraq. Discuss about the act on going the war that was waged to throw down Saddam Hussein.

What I do not get is about these people who said that diplomacy should have been use. That any war is evil and should not have been done at all. It is ridiculuous because Saddam was laughing his ass off each time negotiators talk to him. He wasn't a reasonable man at all.

I feel that if George Bush Senior wasn't such a chicken and went all the way into Iraq and thrown down Saddam then in the early 90's, we would never have this current situation with iraq.

Saddam Hussien was only a threat to his own people. He didn't have  WMD's at all, and the inspectors were actually doing their job of proving it, which was unacceptable for Bush. If they had proven WMD's were destroyed, Bush's public justification for war would vansih, and he and his buddies in Project for a New American Century (google it) had already decided to take Saddam out. Instead they kept saying they had "secret" evidence and casting doubt on the whole process to try and drum up support for their illegal war.

The reason we couldn't just say "oh, we're gonna take saddam out cause he's on our list of anti-US dictators and he's on a huge supply of oil we would like for strategic geopolitical reasons" was because that would be illegal. It would be waging aggressive war which is partly what we convicted the nazi's of in the Nuremburg trials. That was the only way we could get the UK on board, as well. Since they actually take war crimes stuff somewhat seriously in that country.