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Is the War on Iraq Morally Defensible?

One of Buddha's sermons stresses the need to love your enemy no matter how cruelly he treats you: "Even if thieves carve you limb from limb with a double-handed saw, if you make your mind hostile you are not following my teaching." (-Kamcupamasutta, Majjhima-Nikkaya I ~28-29) The U.S. administration and President Bush have said that the war on Iraq is legal and justified. They base their arguments on Saddam Hussein's resistance to U.N. resolutions over the past twelve years, most particularly U.N. resolution 1441 last November where the Security Council voted 15-0 that Saddam Hussein must disarm or face "serious consequences." That said, the Dalai Lama, the Pope, and many other religious leaders from a broad range of spiritual traditions, as well as vast numbers of citizens disagree. They have argued that UN inspections were containing Saddam Hussein, that the U.S. hasn't made its case well enough, that the danger he poses the world does not warrant war and that war is a legally sanctioned form of violence that is not ethically or morally justified. Is this war…or any war morally defensible?