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President Bush stood before an awe-struck United Nations as he defined his justification for war. ... Because they knew that every word that came out of the President’s mouth, justifying the United States-led war in Iraq, was an outright lie. ... Waging a war on Iraq was, and still is, unjust. ...
Jimmy Carter, in a 2003 article in the New York Times, educated Americans on what a Just war is. He explained that the war must meet certain criteria in order to be defined as Just. One of the criteria is that war must be a last resort. Attacking Iraq was clearly not a last resort. ... The United States cut ties with the United Nations after the United Nations expressed some of their nonviolent options, and the United States began a war with no backing. Also, Jimmy Carter’s Just-War criterion states that the violence must be proportional to the injury that the aggressor has suffered. Although the attacks that took place on September 11th shattered the American spirit and took the lives of hundreds, current death tolls from the war that we have waged in Iraq are astounding. ... ” There were no justifications for war against Iraq when the United States set off on their conquest, and there still are none. ... Christopher Scheer, a journalist for Alternet, sets the record straight by outlining the “Ten appalling lies we were told about Iraq.” Among the lies is a statement made by President Bush in 2002 saying “The evidence indicates that Iraq is reconstituting its nuclear weapons program,” and going on to say, “Iraq has attempted to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes and other equipment needed for gas centrifuges, which are used to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons.
Approximate Word count = 1430
Approximate Pages = 5.7
(250 words per page double spaced)
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