Human Rights Watch: Ousting Saddam 'no cause for war':Only mass slaughter might permit the deliberate taking of life in using military force for humanitarian purposes,
Brutal as Saddam Hussein's reign had been, the scope of the Iraq Government's killing in March 2003, was not of the exceptional and dire magnitude that would justify humanitarian intervention.
The Bush administration cannot justify the war in Iraq as a humanitarian intervention, and neither can Tony Blair.