With the release of President Bush’s memoirs, a lot of discussion is going to be taking place about his most controversial endeavor: the invasion of Iraq. What I’d like to do with this essay is to provide my readers with a short list of facts they can use to combat the “Bush lied, kids died” non-argument, and I’d like to do so by drawing attention to some UN Security Council resolutions which not only take the blame from President Bush, but also firmly show that the rest of the world had already legitimized the second invasion of Iraq. With that in mind, remember these three steps.
1) Invasion! UN Security Council Resolution 678 (1990) (more…)