Legitimacy

During the build up to the Coalition invasion of Iraq there was great debate on whether the war was legitimate or not.  The left points to the failure to find large caches of WMD as justification for condemning the invasion.
 
Over at Iraq the Model, Omar, an Iraqi Blogger writes:
 

You cannot tell a man that saving him and his family from torture, humiliation and death was a mistake and it should  have not been done because it is illegal. This is almost an insult to Iraqis to hear someone saying that this war was illegal. It means that our suffering for decades meant nothing and that formalities and the stupid rules of the UN (that rarely function) are more important than the lives of 25 million people. 

 

Indeed.