It stands to reason that the occupation of Iraq is illegal. Members of the Bush Administration repeatedly made numerous false statements over a period of years in order to create an environment where the military action would be acceptable. Members of the Bush Administration lied in order to conduct a war for their own personal goals and aspirations. (Reference: Center for Public Integrity War Card Study)

Here's a Chomsky quote:

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The Nuremburg tribunal, which is basically American, expressed high ideals, which we profess. Namely, of all the war crimes, aggression is the supreme international crime, which encompasses within it all of the evil that follows. It's obvious that the Iraq invasion is a pure case of aggression and therefore, according to our ideals, it encompasses all the evil that follows, like sectarian warfare, al-Qaeda Iraq, Abu Ghraib, and everything else. The chief U.S. Prosecutor Robert Jackson, addressed the tribunal and said, "we should remember that we're handing these Nazi war criminals a poisoned chalice. If we ever sip from it we must be subject to the same principles or else the whole thing is a farce."

The war is being waged, not because of a threat from terrorism. The war is being waged, in truth, because of desires to control the oil resource. The oil resource is necessary to the pursuit of global dominance.

Members of the Bush Administration made false statements in order to foist a wrongful war upon us. The invasion was aggression. So, it seems, in the words of Robert Jackson, that the Nuremberg Principles are "a farce."

It doesn't have to be this way. But if anything is going to change, we are going to have to work to make it so. Fortunately, I think we can have fun on the road to a better world. Otherwise it might just not be worth it!