I want to find a concise summary of justifications for invading Iraq (Vanity)

[ChessExpert]

I’ve bookmarked this. There are a lot of good resources. In addition to many excellent posts, there are links to additional material. Kudos to those who took the time to provide quality responses.

It’s clear to me that there were many reasons for war in Iraq. It’s a complex world so that should not be a surprise.

Also, people like Hitler, Tojo, Stalin, Mao, Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il, and Saddam Hussein can give us a few reasons. If we operated on a hair trigger, one reason would be enough. But then we might make a mistake (Yugoslavia?). When the worst dictators are allowed to misbehave for years, sometimes decades, many reasons accumulate. I think that occurred here. Sometimes it can be a straw that breaks the camel’s back.

Genocide using WMDs, continuing WMD programs, violating the terms of a cease-fire by not cooperating with weapon inspectors, shooting at US planes, attempting the assassination of a US President, funding terrorists, providing a safe harbor for terrorists, involvement in the 1996 WTC attack, possible involvement in the September 11th attacks. I think it valid that the accumulation of reasons ends up deciding the case.