re: #8 Obdicut

It makes a perfectly valid point. My point is that saying the invasion of Iraq was legal and drone strikes aren’t is actually working against your point, since the Iraq war was far more dangerous, killed far more people, etc. so much more than the drone strikes do.

I think that our drone stuff isn’t actually useful and should be stopped, but in terms of whether it’s formally a war crime, I don’t care nearly as much as I do of the massive loss of life represented by the Iraq war and what led us to that point.

The actual legality of the Iraq invasion is a matter of quite some dispute. Since “Bush lied people died” became the most common conclusion after the weapons were not there at all. Either we have a policy that has a rational definition of imminence or we don’t. At this time do not. That’s damn dangerous for a nation this powerful and frankly, reactionary.