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The Humanitarian Argument for the Iraq War


A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq

Current debate over the motives, ideological justifications, and outcomes of the war with Iraq has been strident and polarizing. This book is the first volume ...

A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq

Before the U.S. and its allies invaded Iraq in 2003, there were writers and thinkers who distrusted Bush but favored the war largely on human rights ...

The 'Humanitarian Exception' and the Problem of Abuse in the Case ...

not have proper authority to invade Iraq, this is not a question for classical just war theorists. The argument ... invasion of Iraq in terms of a humanitarian.

Rally 'Round the Flag: Opinion in the United States before and after ...

The Iraq war validated a basic rule of American politics: the American public closes ranks in times of national crisis.

Humanitarian Intervention and the War in Iraq: - ProQuest

6 Recent trends in the conduct of and discourse on humanitarian intervention based on state practice during the Cold War and the 1990s, however, can be ...

Would an Invasion of Iraq Be a “Just War”?

What is the casus belli for a military attack on Iraq? Among the several causes put forward by the Bush administration, the most troubling is its argument for ...

Human Rights Watch Policy on Iraq

Once the war is over, we will seek to bring to justice those responsible for genocide, war crimes or crimes against humanity and to exclude them from government ...

Iraq's Humanitarian Crisis - Global Policy Forum

In addition to combat deaths, Coalition forces have killed many Iraqi civilians. Iraqis have also died because of the disintegration of the health care system, ...

How the war in Iraq changed the world—and what change could ...

A national reconciliation commission, a new constitution, and an economy less dependent on oil revenue are just some of the areas the experts at the Atlantic ...

A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for the War in Iraq ...

This article assesses whether the 2003 invasion of Iraq can be justified as a humanitarian intervention. Because of the potential loss of life ...

The Iraq War: Primary Sources

Two years into the war, Feldman, a constitutional expert and Arabic-speaker sent to Iraq by the Bush administration, argued that U.S. intervention in Iraq ...

Why Did the United States Invade Iraq? The Debate at 20 Years

Hegemony school scholars argue instead that the purpose of the Iraq War was to preserve and extend U.S. hegemony, including the spread of ...

Legality of the Iraq War - Wikipedia

However, legal experts and other world leaders have argued that the war lacked justification and violated the United Nations charter. A UN weapons inspector in ...

Justifications of the Iraq War Examined1

First is the ''invasion'' model. I will point to two possible reasons for invading Iraq—self-defense and law enforcement—and then pose questions about each. The ...

Operation Iraqi Freedom | FindLaw

Similarly, the arguments for interventionism in Iraq have been made in humanitarian terms, with the Bush Administration invoking human rights, ...

3. The Human Rights Case for the War in Iraq

case of one extended argument laglainst seeing the Iraq war as a humanitarian war. In Chapter 6, "War in Iraq: Not a Humanitarian Intervention," Kenneth.

Iraq War | Summary, Causes, Dates, Combatants, Casualties, & Facts

U.S. President George W. Bush argued that the vulnerability of the United States following the September 11 attacks of 2001, combined with ...

The Iraq War | George W. Bush Library

The Iraq War was an armed conflict between a United States-led coalition force against the regime of Saddam Hussein from 2003 to 2011. The war was part of a ...

Use of Force against Iraq: Occupation and Security Council ...

The United States based its legal argument for the invasion of Iraq on two grounds: (1) the enforcement of relevant Security Council resolutions and (2) self- ...

Iraq War: Background and Issues Overview - EveryCRSReport.com

Further delay in taking action against Iraq, they argued, would have endangered national security and undermined U.S. credibility. Skeptics, including many ...