[Mature] What is a Justified War?

[Bardock]

Self-preservation, if anything, would be the only justification for war. If you're about to be stomped into the ground, don't just sit there and take it up the ass. Otherwise, I don't see a point to it, other than the fact that I believe human beings are naturally violent creatures.

So you support the Iraq War?

No, I don't. The Iraq War, for us, is not about self-preservation. The Iraq War is not even about 9/11. The Iraq War was somebody putting Saddam's picture front and center by associating him with an event that had nothing to do with him. The reasons we went in there were completely obfuscated by the presidency and the media, and anybody who was paying half attention would have realized that. If the US was "up in arms and defending our nation against terrorist attack," we went after the wrong guy. Therefore, I do not believe the Iraq War is about self-preservation, and thus, I do not support it.

Self-preservation, to me, is about fending off an invading country that wants to uproot the current system to put their own in place, a la, an empire. However, the 9/11 attacks were about sending a message, not necessarily eradicating the whole country.


EDIT: Let me clarify one thing: I support our troops, not the war.