Iraq War Just?
I was on my way to the laser hair removal wilmslow clinic where I was picked up the Catholic Reporter to read; in the reporter it said that there were wikileaks documents that revealed that the United States tried to pressure the Vatican to reverse their belief that the war in Iraq was unjust. The Vatican believed not only was the war unjust but also that it has served no purpose and ultimately was useless. Humanitarian aid was what the Vatican believed should have been given to rebuild Iraq after the war.
The Just War theory dates its way back to St. Thomas Aquinas who wrote about it in his Summa Theoligia. He uses the teaching of Jesus and Paul to show how wars should never be fought. There are reasons for a just war though and three conditions must be met by the war. First war must be declared by the appropriate authority and only to protect the people who are under that authority from external and internal enemies, also the cause must be just. Lastly, there must be a rightful intention behind the war.
The motives for going to war must be good such as punishing evil-doers and keeping the peace among the nations. Aquinas agreed with Augustine that war is an evil thing, and its purpose is to overcome worse evils. Just Wars are meant to be defensive against evil, so pre-emptive strikes can raise questions about justice. Since the weapons that Saddam Hussein had were never found it raises the questions of what really the true motives of the war was. Though Christians all over the world had differing opinions on the war, there is no way that the Bush administration good justify that the war lined up with the Just war theory.
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