Included in the 'Just War- Iraq' information pack is a brochure titled' Was the 2003 Invasion of Iraq Just?'
The brochure provides an application of the Just War Theory to the Bush Administration's justification for the invasion and answers the following questions:
* What is Just War Theory?
* Was the 'right intention' evident in Iraq?
* Was the invasion fo a 'just cause'?
* Was the response 'proportionate'?
* Had 'all other avenues been exhausted' at the time of invasion?
Information used in the brochure is listed in the reference section below:
References:
1.J. Baylis, S. Smith and P. Owens, The Globalization of World Politics: An introduction to International Relations, (4th Edition), Oxford University Press, 2008, p 201.
2.S. Anderson et. al. (eds) International Studies: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Global Issues (Boulder: Westview Press, 2008) p 355.
3.‘President Says Saddam Hussein Must Leave Iraq Within 48 Hours’, Washington D.C., March 17, 2003. www.whitehouse.gov [date of access 20 May 2011].
4.S. Ritter, ‘Weapons of Mass Destruction, War on Shaky Foundation’, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, April 21, 2003, p 13.
5.N.Fotion, ‘The War in Iraq: 2003 and Beyond’ in Bruno Coppieters and Nick Fotion (Ed) Moral Constraints on War (2nd Edition), Lexington Books, Lanham, 2008 p. 290.
6.S.J. Harnett and L.A. Stengrim, ‘The Whole Operation of Deception: Reconstructing President Bush’s Rhetoric of Weapons of Mass Destruction’, Cultural Studies & Critical Methodologies, May 2004, p 159.
7.M. Abley, ‘A Just War?’, The Gazette, 22 March 2003.
8.C.V. Pena, ‘After Saddam: Still No Good Options in a Wrong War’, Mediterranean Quarterly, Volume 15, No 2, Spring 2004, p 23.
9.C. Crook, ‘The War Against Iraq: All a Big Mistake?’, National Journal, 10th November 2003.
10. Iraq Body Count Project, http://www.iraqbodycount.org/ , [date of access 23rd May 2011].
11.E.A. Heinze, ‘Humanitatian intervention and the war in Iraq: norms, discourse, and state practice’, Expanded Academic ASAP, 4th October 2010.
12.Adams, ‘Intelligence CIA Iraq WMD 450302’, 14th February 2004, nicholsoncartoons.com.au/tag/wmd, [date of access 29th May 2011].
13. M. Droghan, Anti-war Global Issue, 7th September 2010, tmcnewpeople.wordpress.com/category/anti-war/, [date of access 1 June 2011].
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