bruce, if you had read or comprehended what I just posted, and thought about what was said at the Nuremberg Tribunal, you would realise that it is just as irrelevant for the US, me or you to ask that question of Iran, as it would be for any of us to question the US over its nuclear stockpiles.

a country has sovereignty over itself. other countries come when invited, and behave like nice guests.

Nuremberg - doesnt that word resonate for you somehow - the Nuremberg excuse?

I repeat:

To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.

Nuremberg's condemnation of preventive war was incorporated into the U.N. Charter, affirmed by the General Assembly, and accepted by the Security Council.36 In 1978, the U.S. mobilized the Security Council to condemn Vietnam's invasion of Cambodia and overthrow of the violently repressive Khmer Rouge regime, terming it a breach of Charter and an act of aggression in violation of international law.

QED.