The Humanitarian Argument for the Iraq War

Global War on Terror | George W. Bush Library

In 2002 and early 2003, the United States began exerting pressure on Iraq to follow through on its commitments to improve human rights, release prisoners, break ...

Timeline: The Iraq War - Council on Foreign Relations

In March 2003, US forces invaded Iraq vowing to destroy Iraqi weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and end the dictatorial rule of Saddam Hussein.

Critically assess the decision to go to war against Iraq in 2003

Whilst it is clear that the United States and the British government felt that there was a threat emanating from Iraq, in order to justify the ...

The Humanitarian Paradox: Why Human Rights Require Restraint

As the cases of Iraq and Libya demonstrate, preventive or humanitarian wars have critically impaired human rights. Similarly, comprehensive ...

How to Kill an Entire Country The Legacy of the Sanctions against Iraq

The sanctions unleashed on Iraq on 6th August 1990 and imposed until the 2003 invasion were deeply cruel and inhumane. People could no longer ...

United States Budgetary Costs and Human Costs of 20 Years of War ...

... war in Iraq includes human deaths and misery ... President Bush gave more specific arguments for a preemptive war against Iraq, saying that.

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 ...

The Uses and Abuses of the Iraq War - New Lines Magazine

Even more persuasive, however, were the arguments against using war as a means for achieving this: Iraq was not at war, and wars invariably harm ...

The Moral Case Against the Iraq War | The Nation

The final argument advanced by the Administration, as well as some human rights advocates, is that the war was morally justifiable as a ...

FEATURE — LEGALITY OF THE USE OF FORCE AGAINST IRAQ ...

Some argued that the invasion enjoyed the implied authorisation of the Security Council, suggesting that. Resolution 678, a remnant of the first Gulf War, ...

Pages from a Daily Journal of Argument | Oxford Academic

The chapter also describes the dimensions on the issue on the war in Iraq. Gregas believes that if a government treats its own people with terrible brutality, ...

How the Gulf Crisis Began and Ended

However, Iraq kept ignoring the international community's demand and, as part of its efforts to justify its invasion of Kuwait, abruptly introduced the so- ...

Why So Many Liberals Supported Invading Iraq - Slate Magazine

People like Makiya argued that Iraq had the potential to become a democracy because of its well-developed infrastructure and educated middle ...

Why did Bush go to war in Iraq? | Opinions - Al Jazeera

Rather, the Bush administration invaded Iraq for its demonstration effect. A quick and decisive victory in the heart of the Arab world would ...

Roundtable: Generation Iraq: The Iraq War's Legacy of Harm

The entwining of humanitarian organizations with the invasion and occupation has made it more difficult to argue a humanitarian imperative in ...

3 takeaways 20 years after the invasion of Iraq - NPR

"They basically planned for a best-case scenario, where the Iraqi people would cooperate with the occupation, that Iraqi units would be ...

Humanitarian Arguments War in Iraq by Thomas Cushman SC - eBay

Item Number. 395334517359 ; Book Title. Matter of Principle : Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq ; Item Length. 9in ; Est. delivery. Tue, Nov 12 - Sat, Nov 16.

A Matter of Principle by Thomas Cushman - PDF

This stimulating and diverse series of arguments make A Matter of Principle an important collection for anyone with an interest in the debate over the Iraq war, ...

Coming to Terms with the Humanitarian Imperative in Iraq - UVIC

2 See Humanitarian Action in Iraq – Emerging Constraints and Challenges, Humanitarianism and War Project, 27 April 2004, http://hwproject.tufts.edu/new/pdf/ ...

Q/A on the Iraq War, Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman ...

There are two incentives for reconstruction in Iraq: one is to serve U.S. companies, obviously mainly donor companies like Halliburton and ...