There is no such thing as "legal international standing" There is no body of international law that is binding on any country. total hogwash.
I agree that going into Iraq and Afghanistan as we did was a dumb mistake. BUT Bush did not do it on his own, congress authorized and funded those fiascos, just like they authorized and funded Kennedy and Johnson's fiasco known as viet nam.
You putting the whole thing on Bush just shows either your ignorance, bias, or both.
The problem is not Bush, Obama, or any other president. The problem is our deep seated feeling that we are responsible to police the world. Its bullshit and its getting our kids killed and maimed for nothing.
let me make this as simple as I can
no terrorist
no wars
No Saddam, killing millions, lying, creating WMDs that were confirmed to exist by the UN and B Clinton, and Saddam supporting terror in the world
no war, never, any where
Getting rid of Saddam Hussein was the goal. I believe the proper course of action would have been to form a coalition of Arab and non Arab states. Instead Bush decided to essentially go it alone.
Hussein HAD to go. The Gulf region nations practically begged us to get rid of Hussein.
Had Hussein remained in power, the consequences would have been grave. Hussein was intent on destabilizing the entire Middle East.
Should that have happened, the economic structure of the World would have been thrown into chaos.
Why? Because the economic well being on this planet depends on the uninterrupted marketplace for petroleum. Hussein was threatening his neighbors. And that, the free world could not tolerate such belligerence. Hussein did it once. He invaded Kuwait under the false pretense that Kuwait was drilling laterally into Iraqi soil. No true. Hussein wanted Kuwait City's port and oil installation. Hussein put on a "what are YOU going to do about it" tone. I guess he figured if he told the world his 'Republican Guard' was a bunch of really tough guys willing to fight to the death, no one would screw with Iraq.
Hussein figured wrong. Twice.