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Preemptive War Versus Humanitarian War
I think it's not that hard to make a distinction between international organizations authorizing military force to stop genocidal activities and the invasion of Iraq. An invasion of Iraq at the time Saddam was actually gassing the Kurds, for the purpose of stopping the gassing of the Kurds, would have been very different from "regime change." Kosovo, Bosnia, East Timor, Somalia, you can run down a lot of the characteristics of that military action and see how different it was; our embassy in East Timor isn't the size of a small county.