Legal, maybe, but its conforming to the defining factors of being a just war are incredibly dubious, from many reasons. Firstly, the UN did not consent to the occupation, and the war was most definitely not a last resort. Considering no trace of WMDs have ever been found, it's conceivable the US Government, at some point in its hierarchy, falsified facts and just plain lied. Innocent civilians were indeed killed, by the hundreds, if not thousands. There are the typical Internet rumours of exotic alien weaponry being tested, buses condensing to the siz of a small car, with human bodies burning and shriveling to nothing, but that's an even less likely source of truth than Bush. There are huge question marks over the intent of the war and the reason behind it, too. The WMDs, as I said, were not found, and there's plenty to suggest America wanted access to Iraq's oil reserves, though I haven't heard anything about this in ages. Peace was defnitely not resumed after the conflict, either. Whoops, there goes every single definition of a just war. Gulf War II isn't even a sixth justified.
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