Originally Posted by antarius
I do not agree with asking for world permission to protect my own country. Nor do I agree with asking for world acceptance after I do it.
I love how Republicans always come back to that point of rhetorical nonsense.
When has any president, regardless of party, asked for permission from another country to go to war? There's a big difference between getting real allies on board, and "asking permission." Real allies add legitimacy to our position. Real allies help foot the bill in both troops and money.
What I want is for a president to only use war to defend the country as a last resort, and that's not what happened at all with Iraq.