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The Humanitarian Argument for the Iraq War


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 ...

The Human Rights Case for the War in Iraq: A Consequentialist View

The purpose of this chapter is to provide a moral and ethical defense of the war in Iraq. The principal argument of this defense is that the war – while ...

HI-01-03 Was the Iraq War a "Humanitarian" Intervention?

Nadin counters that this rationale for the Iraq war entails "significant revision" of the traditional—and, in his view, preferable—doctrine of humanitarian ...

Introduction: The Liberal-Humanitarian Case for War in Iraq

Bush was making the same argument. In any case, this volume at least raises the possibility that the war in Iraq was in keeping with other unilateral efforts to ...

SECURITY COUNCIL MEETS TO CONSIDER HUMANITARIAN ...

The humanitarian situation in Iraq had posed a “serious moral dilemma” for the Organization. The United Nations had always been on the side of ...

Humanitarian Intervention and Pretexts for War | Cambridge Core

That question has acquired even greater significance in the wake of military interventions in Kosovo and Iraq, and nonintervention in the Sudan. Concerted ...

The ethos–practice gap: perceptions of humanitarianism in Iraq - ICRC

Some aid organizations are seen by others to have become instruments in the ''global war on terror'' by embedding with controversial military forces, confirming ...

The Iraq War – A Humanitarian Success?

About one hundred thousand Iraqis have died as a result of the war; probably many more. Many others have been maimed, still others abused in ...

“Regime Change”: The Case of Iraq - California Scholarship Online

It was widely advertised that the US invasion of Iraq was motivated by a concern about the ability of its then-dictator Saddam Hussein to use weapons of mass ...

The Decision to Go to War with Iraq - James P. Pfiffner

For the first six months of the Bush administration, however, their arguments did not persuade President Bush. During the campaign for the presidency, George W.

The Iraq war: Social and humanitarian implications - ReliefWeb

Massive waves of refugees fleeing Iraq or seeking to return never materialized during the war or its aftermath. However, several important ...

Opinion | The Humanitarian War Myth - The Washington Post

Civilians suffer in all wars, but the suffering of Iraqi civilians in this war is particularly unfortunate because one of the main ...

A Matter of Principle ; Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq

A Matter of Principle ; Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq — Current debate over the motives, ideological justifications, and outcomes of the war with ...

A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq

A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian. Arguments for War in Iraq. Edited by Thomas Cushman, University of California Press, 2005, 320 pp. Harry Hatchett. Turn to ...

War on Iraq could produce a humanitarian disaster, health ...

A report from Medact—a UK based organisation of health professionals that was set up to highlight the health consequences of war—warns that a new war on ...

Has the Iraq War Torpedoed the “Responsibility to Protect”?

... war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. If a nation fails to protect its populations from these barbarities, the nations of the world ...

20 Years On, I Don't Regret Supporting the Iraq War

Ultimately, the choice for the United States and our allies in early 2003 wasn't invasion or containment. It was invasion or, over time, the ...

A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq

Current debate over the motives, ideological justifications, and outcomes of the war with Iraq have been strident and polarizing.A Matter of Principleis the ...

Success Matters: Casualty Sensitivity and the War in Iraq"

In this article, we argue that the public will tolerate significant numbers of. U.S. combat casualties under certain circumstances. To be sure, the public is.

Humanitarian Responses to a War in Iraq

In the event of a war with Iraq, there will be a critical need to protect civilians and provide humanitarian assistance in a highly unstable environment.