Was The War Justified?

Judging from this story, it would be hard to say that Saddam should have been left in power.

This story also illustrates how discoveries of recent heinous crimes can take quite a while to uncover. This was a public execution designed to instill terror in the local residents. If it took a month to uncover a public event, is it any surprise that we haven't uncovered concrete evidence of WMDs yet?

I still believe that the WMDs will be discovered. But even if they are not, I feel that the war was justified. Human rights violations of this severity cannot be allowed to persist.

Of course, not every human rights violation is worthy of a full-scale war. But no human rights violation should be ignored, either. Saddam was one of the worst violators alive today. This latest report of handcuffed women buried alive is simply more proof of the depravity of the regime.