Matthew Rothschild makes the key points against initiating war with Iraq. Unlike Instapundit I think the Christian rules of a just war work. Without them we become the imperial power our detractors accuse us of being. I would rather there be a negligible basis in fact for those accusations than a blatant one. Going to war on trumped-up charges is a terrible precedent to set.

For the record I disagree with some of the hyperbole Mr Rothschild uses. We don't need to stretch facts like the Iraq-hawks do to make our case. The embargo casualties are a fiction. And the proposed casuality figures are not at all realistic.