In the aftermath of the Gulf War and the following inspections, virtually all of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and capability of producing such weapons were destroyed. The United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) oversaw the destruction of 38,000 chemical weapons, 480,000 liters of live chemical weapons agents, 30 missile warheads modified to carry chemical or biological agents, and hundreds of pieces of related equipment with the capability to produce chemical weapons (Rai, Milan. War on Iraq). Iraq is no more a threat to the U.S. than any other sovereign country. .
President Bush tried very hard to convince the American people the war was legal but in reality it broke many laws. Bush emphasized a need for a preemptive war even though it is unlawful. A preemptive war is a war of aggression. Under international law, a preemptive war can only be justified as an act of self-defense only when there is a genuine and imminent threat of physical attack (Preemptive War). There is no evidence that Iraq had tried or will try to attack the United States. President Bush even recently admitted that no credible connection has been found linking the September 11 attack and Saddam Hussein. A few weeks after September 11th, Congress to pressured President Bush into trying diplomacy (U.N. Inspections) before starting a war. After months of looking the U.N. inspectors did not find any weapons of mass destruction, but President Bush still ordered the U.S. military to attack Iraq, on the premise that Iraq had failed to prove they had no weapons of mass destruction. This attack can only be recognized as war, which by the Constitution (Article 1, Section 8, Paragraph 11), only Congress had the authority to declare. The Attack on Iraq is not only immoral, it is illegal. .
As demonstrated in the past, the cost of war will be great on both sides. The United States was determined to move forward with its plans of a large-scale military operation against Iraq to overthrow the regime of Saddam Hussein.
