¿Mereció la pena?

Segun Human Rights Watch,
"One is tempted to say that anything is better than living under the tyranny of Saddam Hussein, but unfortunately, it is possible to imagine scenarios that are even worse. Vicious as his rule was, chaos or abusive civil war might well become even deadlier, and it is too early to say whether such violence might still emerge in Iraq."

Así lo recoge un artículo que David Aaronovitch escribe en The Guardian en el que plantea una pregunta para la que muchos defensores de la "legalidad" internacional no están preparados: Was it worth it? Ask those who know ... Cita, por ejemplo, a Tariq Ali:

"You could, as Tariq Ali and John Pilger have suggested, desire victory for the Iraqi "resistance" despite its massacres of the innocent, on the basis that, as Ali has put it, "Occupations are usually ugly. How, then, can resistance be pretty?" Or, in Pilger's words, "While we abhor and condemn the continuing loss of innocent life in Iraq, we have no choice now but to support the resistance, for if the resistance fails, the 'Bush gang' will attack another country. If they succeed, a grievous blow will be suffered by the Bush gang."

La respuesta la encuentra en Madrid, en el consejo de la Internacional Socialista y en boca del kurdo PUK, Barham Salih:

"[...]our nightmare of the Saddam Hussein fascist tyranny is over. The world should have acted sooner to end the killing fields and stop mass graves in Iraq. Good social democrats should be making the moral argument that the war of liberation in Iraq came too late for so many innocent victims of Saddam's fascist tyranny. And the lesson for the international community should be [that] it must be prepared to act in time and pre-empt terrible tragedies from happening again anywhere else in the world."

Claro que ya sabemos lo mucho que estos razonamientos impresionaron a sus colegas españoles.