Firstly since it was US and Britain that invaded I think the onus is on them to proove why it is legal...not on people who disagree to show how it is illegal. Besides in the British case is was clearly illegal...Blair got up in the house of commons and lied in public about saddam having weapons of mass distruction that could destroy our country within 45 minutes....then suprise suprise the Biological weapons expert David Kelly that we sent to iraq calls the claim a bunch of bull, and turns up dead in the middle of a forrest three days later...
not only that Britain knew there would only be legality to invade if we pursued a second UNSR resolution authorising an invasion in the event that Saddam did not back down...the second resolution never happened and we went in anyway.
So without international authority we invaded another country...please explain to me HOW this would be legal
btw why the hell would the Iraqis be greatful? 650,000 people dead some say up to one million, and Iran scrabbling around in their backyard, more than 2million refugees, the christian population almost completely erased....all their oil being signed off to foreign investors...yes they have lots to thank us for.
First of all it is your opinion that anyone lied about WMD, seems to me they pulled what 300 metric tons of yellow cake uranium out of Iraq. They didn't have any nuclear facilities, what exactly was Saddam going to do with this? And as far a biological agents, from the military personel that I have heard from they had all the ingredients, some mixed, they just didn't have a delivery system. No delivery system and it can't be classified as a WMD.
And on top of that the 91' Gulf War did not end in a surrender, it ended in a cease fire. Iraq continually broke the terms of the cease fire, so legally hostilities could have re-commenced at any time.
The UN is a corrupt POS and was proven when all these "higher ups" were found to be being bribed by Saddam with oil. If you expect me to rely on an organization that can't even police itself, to give authorization for anything your nuts.
I don't care if they are grateful, Saddam brought this upon the people of Iraq, he's dead now along with his offspring. Time for the populace to sink or swim. I hope they can swim.