Calm down dears, it's only a Current Affairs thread (said the pot calling the kettles black!)
Could I quietly mention Hans Blix and the state of his WMD investigation at the time of the proposed 2nd resolution. To justify military action, you have to justify threat, which in terms of citizens external to Iraq did not exist. The appalling human rights record of the baathist regime is not one to be ignored (but let's not forget our and the Americans previous support for it). Regime change was a righteous goal, but the means used to achieve it much less so, not just because of the death toll caused by the conflict but the wider damage to relations in the Middle East. There appears to have been an immutable plan to invade rather than await the outcome of Blix's investigation and no real desire to achieve a wider consensus which could have reduced the death toll - particularly in the post Saddam era - and created a more stable world than we have now.