Which war was justified?

Peter Worthington at the Toronto Sun has an interesting take on the war against Iraq and the war in Kosovo. In Kosovo, NATO (the US and Europe) went to war because the Serb’s were suspected of committing genocide against the Albanians. While atrocities were committed by both sides, no mass graves have been found. No systematic genocide has been found in Kosovo. Now our (NATO’s) getting involved may have prevented the genocide from taking place, but that means NATO acted preemptively to prevent a bad thing from happening.

In Iraq, we didn’t act preemptively, 300,000 were already killed. So far 250 mass graves have been found. Putting this into perspective, under Sadam, more Iraqis were killed for political reasons (this does not count the folks who died in the Iran/Iraq war or Gulf War 1 or 2) then the US had lost in Vietnam and World War 2.

Whether Sadam had NBC weapons or not, we know he wanted them so it was prudent to act preemptively like we did in Kosovo. But to also stop the mass murder of the Iraqi people alone justifies the war against Sadam.