Ten Reasons to Leave Iraq Now (Counterbias.com)

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Ten Reasons to Leave Iraq Now

May 29 2007
Counterbias.com
by Michael Boldin


10. The U.S. military has absolutely no right, whether legal or moral, to be killing people who live in Iraq. It has no right to even be in Iraq. Why is this? Because neither the Iraqi government nor the Iraqi people ever attacked the United States. This fact makes the war in Iraq an optional one, not a necessary one.

To reiterate what should be obvious, the fact that the U.S. was attacked in 2001 does not give this country the right to attack and kill people who had nothing to do with those crimes. It is morally acceptable to go after criminals, but it is a crime to kill their families, their friends, their neighbors, or anyone else not criminally complicit.

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1. but bush just said today how terrible it was to kill civilians

IN DARFUR. Oh those conservative values are just so overpowering.

[Demeter]

2. It's The Smell, Not the Values, That's Overpowering n/t

[Prophet 451]

3. Reason 11

This isn't a "Just War".

I'm a religious person. Early on in Christian history, Christians were supposed to be unconditional pacifists but around the middle of the fourth century, some theologians began compiling a set of conditions for when war was morally acceptable. That set of conditions eventually became known as the "Just War theory" and is now widely accepted.

When I say I'm religious, I don't mean Christian but, like most people, I subscribe to the Just War theory. The war in Iraq isn't a Just War, it fails virtually all of the conditions set forth. The war in Afghanistan was a Just War (at least, in theory) but Iraq isn't.