The issue of whether or not 'Saddam needed to go' is irrelevant and always has been.
leery of the current explanations of the war as an attempt to "spread democracy"
When all other excuses fail (or are proven false), always fall back to a philosophical reason that can't be argued definitively one way or another.
Not necessarily. Shooting at our planes in the no fly zone, for instance, was an act of war that went largely unpunished through the Clinton administration.
When all other excuses fail (or are proven false), always fall back to a philosophical reason that can't be argued definitively one way or another.
Seems to me that we could argue pretty effectively that we (1) aren't in favor of colonialism, particularly when we are the colonizers, and (2) it's not our business to decide what sort of government other countries choose to have.
But I have been wrong before.