OT; afghan war illegal?

[WTE_Galway]

Originally Posted by DroopSnoot

and why was Iraq illegal?

Generally the 2003 Iraq invasion is seen as illegal and the Afghanistan invasion is seen as legitimate.

If you want to get technical about it, its impossible for any military action by the United States to be declared "illegal" in the United Nations as the US has veto power in the security council. Any attempt to declare a US military action illegal can simply be vetoed by the US.

On the other hand, if the 2003 invasion had been conducted by anyone other than a security council member with veto powers, the action would likely have been denounced as illegal as regime change is NOT a legitimate reason for invasion and the other claimed reason (WMD) was a fabrication based on suspect testimony gathered mainly from sources connected with Iran. Basically the Bush administration decided to invade and then went looking for legal loopholes to make the invasion legitimate.