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Message: [QUOTE="fundiver199, post: 6314139, member: 397965"] In the legal sense it is exactly the same. You and I can easily agree, that the current president of Ukraine deserve a lot more sympati, and is a more legitimate leader than Saddam Hussein. But this is a subjective and value oriented judgement. International law simply state, that it is forbidded to invade another country unless in self defense or to assist someone being attacked (like Kuwait in 1990). And by openly violating this is 2003, the US and its "coalition of willing" set a presedent, where for instance Russia could argue, that "we are just doing the same as the americans", if they want to install a different government in some other country. Like they now want in Ukraine. And actually there were people warning about this back in 2003. But Bush wanted his war, just like Putin wants his war now. [/QUOTE]