End The War In Iraq

By Paul T. Ireland

The war is unconstitutional and should end immediately. We should never endanger American soldiers unnecessarily.

The U.S. military isn't here to defend any nation but our own, it's not here to practice humanitarian aid or peacekeeping missions, it's not here to enforce UN sanctions, it's not here to overthrow foreign dictators or to "liberate" oppressed people abroad, it's not here to settle disputes among other nations or to disarm tyrants who have not attacked our own country, it's not here to disarm nations we don't like having certain kinds of weapons, it's not here to be a show of force around the world to bully and coerce other nations into compliance, it's not here to do anything other than to directly respond to immediate and impending threats or attacks on American land (that of the 50 states and territories under American protection) and to do nothing else.

It doesn't matter if Saddam wanted to build nukes or even if he actually did build them. Merely owning a weapon does not make you a threat. It doesn't matter if Saddam hates America after being a victim of America for more than a decade. It doesn't matter what weapons Saddam did or didn't use against his neighbors or his own people. It doesn't matter what UN rules he did or didn't violate. It doesn't matter what nations other than ours he invaded or didn't.

None of that makes Saddam or Iraq a threat to America. NONE OF IT!!!

Nothing short of Iraq dropping a bomb on an American city or sinking a U.S. Naval Ship would qualify as a legitimate or libertarian justification for using the U.S. military and would be blatantly unconstitutional.