Token ‘Edgy’ Take on this Iraq Business
*Yawn*
So all the Guardian-reading left-wingers are in an uproar over Tony Blair’s alleged deception over the legality of the Iraq war. Well, fuck those guys.
It’s not against the law at all to go to war. Or, not any real laws. Laws are made for people in countries. Laws are meant to stop you punching babies in the head or driving your car on the wrong side of the road. Laws are imposed by governments who, by election, rank higher than all the people in the country individually.
Countries set laws for people. But who sets laws for countries? The answer, you might think, is the UN. But you’re wrong: nobody sets laws for countries. Who do countries have to answer to if they do something wrong? Nobody but other countries. It would be like having a room of people and getting them to enforce laws amongst themselves. It doesn’t work like that. There has to be some kind of higher authority to defer to and when you reach the top of a country’s government, there is none.
So to anyone saying that the war is illegal… says who? Nobody can slap the wrist of a whole country. Even if they think they can.
The state of international affairs was much better when everything was simple to understand: the country with the biggest army gets to dick on all the shitty countries with the smaller armies. If your country is dicking on countries in the name of good (cf. the British Empire), everyone just lets it go ahead. Britain are obviously the good guys. But if you are the Mittelmächte, you are almost certainly evil and other, nicer countries who have blue on their flags will probably team up to do something to stop you.
The people at ArrestBlair.org, for example, don’t realise that international laws are meaningless words that happen to apply just because most countries are reasonably happy with their neighbours. In reality, anyone can go to war with whoever they want for any reason. So suck it up, you fucking hippies, and just let Iraq go. Nobody cares.