A matter of principle : humanitarian arguments for war in Iraq / edited by Thomas Cushman.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The liberal-humanitarian case for the war in Iraq / Thomas Cushman -- Reconsidering regime change -- The case for regime change / Christopher Hitchens -- Liberal legacies, Europe's totalitarian era and the Iraq war: historical conjectures and comparisons / Jeffrey Herf -- "Regime change": the case of Iraq / Jan Narveson -- In the murk of it: the Iraq crisis reconsidered / Mitchell Cohen -- Philosophical arguments -- National interest and international law / Roger Scruton -- Just war against an outlaw region / Mehdi Mozaffari -- Moral arguments and the war in Iraq: sovereignty, feasibility, agency, and consequences / Daniel Kofman -- Critiques of the left -- A friendly drink in a time of war / Paul Berman -- Wielding the moral club / Ian Buruma -- Peace, human rights, and the moral choices of the churches / Jan Faber -- Ethical correctness and the decline of the left / Jonathan Ree -- Pages from a daily journal of argument / Norman Geras -- Liberal realism or liberal idealism: the Iraq war and the limits of tolerance / Richard Just -- European dimensions -- Iraq and the Europeans / John Lloyd -- Guilt's end: how Germany re-defined the lessons of its past during the Iraq war / Richard Herzinger -- The Iraq war and its French critics / Michel Taubmann -- Tempting illusions, scary realities, or the emperor's new clothes / Anders Jerichow -- Solidarity -- Anti-totalitarianism as a vocation / Thomas Cushman and Adam Michnik -- Sometimes a war saves people / Jose Ramos-Horta -- Gulf war syndrome mark II: the case for siding with the Iraqi people / Johann Hari -- "They don't know one little thing" / Pamela Bone -- "Why did it take you so long to get here?" / Ann Clwyd -- Liberal statesmanship -- Full statement to the House of Commons -- The threat of global terrorism / Tony Blair.