Short Post on Iraq

I was reading an article by Noam Chomsky, arguably the world's most famous intellectual, and he pointed out something I had to share. Those tried at the Nuremberg war trials were hung for crimes of aggression, specifically the illegal invasion of another country. The Bush administration and Congress have committed the same crime by preemptively invading Iraq, and yet those who call for Bush to be tried for war crimes are cast as left-wing crazies.

Technically, the U.S. is accountable to the U.N., but America's current position as superpower means the U.N. could never use this authority, and America could quite legitimately leave the U.N. if the organization went against its interests. By invading Iraq without U.N. support, it broke the same laws that the Nazis were killed for. America's supposed justifications for invading are far more tolerable than the Nazi ambitions of territory and ethnic purity, but America's real reasons for invasion are evil. Not as evil as the Nazis, but invading a country for strategic interests and the benefit of military corporations, and causing the deaths of several hundred thousand people justifies being tried for war crimes. And the current occupation of Iraq, resulting from the illegal and immoral preemptive invasion of the country, has no legitimacy and should be ended as quickly and painlessly as possible.