Doing nothing doesn't create peace, no. But as far as I can see, Iraq hadn't been doing much to cause trouble around the world lately. I'll be the first to admit that the world is a better place without Saddam in power; he is a madman and was harming his own people, and now that he's out of power, despite the chaos Iraq is currently in, the citizens of the country are probably safer. But it's not exactly like we would've had to start a war that wound up causing several thousand Iraqi casualties to remove him from power. People have been taken out of power in bloodless revolutions before; it can happen. Now we're left with a world that hates America even more than it used to, and the situation in Iraq is deep in turmoil anyway.

The evidence of Iraq having WMD was very scant when we went to war, as was the link between Al-Quida and Iraq. Yet both of those were very heavily presented by Bush as the primary reasons for going to war when we started it.

Yes, the first Iraq war was justified. We actually had UN support then, if memory serves. We certainly didn't this time around. Hell, the UN inspectors said there WERE no WMD. And it appears that there were right. Even if Iraq destroyed the WMD themselves, that means they didn't have the WMD anymore. All we've found are a few chemical weapons and some scud missiles.

Too quick to point fingers, I think. But w/e, I'm off to bed.