Now you are running away from what you originally said. We were talking LEGAL justifications. Let me help....
In post 147 you made this comment:
It makes the US invasion of Iraq illegal.
I pointed out, and you continue to ignore, that Iraqi leaders signed a cease-fire agreement at the end of the first war, they then repeatedly violated the terms of that agreement, and that put us in a de facto state of war. We needed no other justification to make this war LEGAL.
OK, one more time. The war was wrong on multiple counts.
It was illegal under our agreements within the UN charter.
It was not justified by a risk to us. Iraq was harmless to us.
If we allow the excuse that freeing others from a dictator (not a danger to us) is an excuse for a war, there will be many wars.
It has accomplished nothing positive in the war on terror. It has probably worsened our situation.
It has weakened us since it is tying up much of our military resource pool that we might need in the near future. (No I don't know where or if we might really be at risk in the future, but it was foolish to tie up so many soldiers on Iraq.)
No contradiction, just multiple reasons that the war should not have happened.