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Gulf War 2 was an aggressive war rather than a sanction. The justification for it -- WMD -- was shown to be a lie.

Had Bush and Blair requested permission from the UN to go to war as a sanction for OTHER violations of UN resolutions by Saddam, then the UN could have granted or withheld permission to engage in war in its name; but they did not. The UN would not have granted such permission, so they made up a new one: WMD. As it was a lie, the war was in fact an aggressive war.

QED.