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To follow up the letter writer who addressed Shooter242 regarding the reasons those who oppose the war do so, among the primary reasons to continue to oppose the war, from the first day of it to now, is that THE WAR WE LAUNCHED AGAINST IRAQ IS ILLEGAL. OUR CONTINUED OCCUPATION OF THEIR LAND IS ILLEGAL.
Even if the war had gone well and none of the many catastrophic aftereffects--all of which had been predicted--had occurred, and even if we had left Iraq mere months after our invasion, the war would have been an illegal act.
To support the war now, whatever the purported reasons, is to support the continuance of a illegal act; it is to assent to the war crimes we have committed as being of no consequence. All that counts is that "we win" (sic).
We've lost, AND we're violators of international law and of the Geneva Conventions. Whether we wish to recognize it or not, we're a pariah nation, a rogue state.
