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What does it mean?
The author declares that the war in Iraq lacks moral justification.
In plain terms
The Iraq war is not right.
What can you take from it?
Question the morality of military conflicts.

Where it applies

  • political debate
  • anti-war movements
  • policy analysis

Putting it to work

  • research conflict origins
  • voice opposition to unjust wars

Questions to consider

  • When is war justified?
  • Who decides if a war is just?

Another view

Definitions of justice in war vary widely among leaders.

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