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All right children - Play nice or you'll get a time out.
First: DON'T INSULT AL GORE. He invented the Internet.
800 US deaths in a war involving over a million troops is a very low number. Don't quote my numbers here, but I think the US lost 50,000 men in Vietnam. In WWII Mother Russia lost over a million men. That kind of puts it all into perspective. An American life lost is a huge loss, but when comparing numbers from prior wars it's a very small number. This is obviously not Vietnam.
There is no such thing as an "illegal" war. In simple terms, war is the entension of politics by other means. There is no court of law that can say a "war is illegal". It is proper to say that there was no "justification" for war; But if this is the case then there obvously wasn't any justification for Iraq invading Kuwait (and raping Kuwait and setting fire to the oil wells).
WMD aside, this war is still part of the 1991 Gulf war. We never really stopped shooting. We enforced the UN no fly zone, they shot missiles at our multi million dollar war planes, and we bombed them back.
The UN says is acting as if it didn't support this. The UN knew Iraq was a thorn in everyone's side, and they wanted to be done with it. They knew the US was going in.
Illegal war my ass. They surrended in 1991, aggreed to the terms, and them broke everyone one of them for over a ten year period. There is no doubt in my mind that we are doing the right thing here.
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