I see people are still saying the war in Iraq is not justified, and some 150,000 to 250,000 (depending on who you listen to) marched in London yesterday on this basis. Even the pope is against it. But... I am still convinced that the war is a (relatively) good thing. Nobody is denying that the Iraqi government is causing the deaths of 150-200 people per day on average (55-75k per year). Around one family in three in Iraq has had a family member tortured or killed by the Iraqi government. Recently one witness reported seeing 30 people executed by being fed into a plastic shredding machine (a bit like a meat mincer). Another report described tortured prisoners being killed with what appeared to be mustard gas sprays, including a 12 year-old boy. And the war isn't justified? I think it is.