You are not paying proper attention to context, BB. What I said was clearly intended to mean a pre-emptive military attack....such as the German attack on Poland (which Hitler claimed was in "defence" of Germany...ha, ha), or the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour, etc (which genuinely was defensive...in a sense...since Roosevelt had cut off their overseas supplies of steel and oil)....or the American attack on Iraq in 2003.

All pre-emptive attacks, all illegal, all criminal. (in my opinion)

It would have been damned funny if Saddam had decided to personally step down and flee Iraq prior to the American attack in 2003, because it would have deprived the USA of their official "evil, terrible, awful, bad guy" excuse for launching a war they very much wanted for their own gainful reasons. (They would then have had to come up with another bizarre rationale for entering that country and taking it over...and I'm sure they would have after a brief flurry of initial surprise and confusion.)

However, Saddam did not do anything that embarrassing and inconvenient. He met standard expectations and remained in Baghdad, defiant as ever, and the great incredible criminal farce went forward as planned. That entire region will suffer for many years yet to come as a result of the war that should never have been fought. Many Americans and Iraqis and other people will die to satisfy the greed of a few big multinational corporations who are cashing in right now and living high on the proceeds.