Recent content by rayhow

That again is not a legal justification. It is itself groundless weaseling. There was a war in 1990-91, to push Iraq out of Kuwait because they had invaded a foreign nation in violation of the UN Charter, and the UNSC approved military action. That military action then achieved its goal and the...

None of this is legal justification. The "Iraq Liberation Act" basically authorized supporting internal opposition groups in Iraq, not a foreign military invasion. The UN resolutions, and to what extent Iraq complied with them is a matter for the UNSC to enforce or not enforce as and in the...

But "unknown perpetrators" is not the same as what you said before. The 500k children dying from sanctions claim is also suspect. See here: http://personal.rhul.ac.uk/uhte/014/Truth%20and%20Death.pdf Basically, the 500k claim first appeared in a Lancet paper in 1995 (before the Oil for...

That's not quite true either: "We analyzed the Iraq Body Count database of 92,614 Iraqi civilian direct deaths from armed violence occurring from March 20, 2003 through March 19, 2008, of which Unknown perpetrators caused 74% of deaths (n = 68,396), Coalition forces 12% (n = 11,516), and...

"14,754 (13%) of all documented civilian deaths were reported as being directly caused by the US-led coalition. ... The frequency of small-scale killings involving US-led coalition forces is illustrated by data showing that for the period from 2005–2007, on average, they were killing civilians...