Would you have voted for the Iraq War?

[Beet]

Well "the vote" was actually in edit:October 2002. By February 2003, I was firmly against the war, so no, but I don't know how I would have voted in October '02.

[Beet]

I mean, an argument could be made that (1) U.S. economic sanctions against Iraq in the 1990s killed as many Iraqis per year through crippling its health system and economy, as the war did, and (2) were Iraq not divided between Sunni and Shiite, and were the Iraqi army kept intact, overthrowing the regime could have been more humane than continuing the sanctions regime. But under no circumstances can you get I think, a scenario where an invasion is more humane than simply lifting sanctions and treating Saddam the way Gadhafi was treated in the 2000s.