In vietnam, we were fighting the native population (burning villages, etc) and going after civilian targets for the sake of getting at the Viet Cong. I see a similar situation in that it is the native insurgents of Iraq who are attacking our troops.
The problem is that regardless of how bad Saddam was or how much better off Iraq is now that he's out of power...that's not the point.
The point is that we went and invaded another soveriegn nation under false pretexts. That would be akin to my busting into my nieghbors house and killing the man who lives there because I know he's beating his wife, instead of calling the police.
There's a reason we rely on the police instead of vigilante justice. It is called "the rule of law" and without that recourse to a (theoretically) objective third party, you cannot have a stable civilised society.
When you undermine national soveriegnity -as we did by invading iraq under false pretenses- you undermine the rule of law, and when you undermine the rule of law, then you destroy one of the basic tenent that holds up the idea of civiliastion.
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