No.
there really isn't an excuse to why anybody isn't treated or seen as an equal. Everybody is and should be treated an equal. In back then, if you're going to create equality and speak equality you should probably practice what you preach.
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The source of government power comes from the consent of the people that it governs.
The United States went to war against Iraq in 200e because Iraq was believed to have weapons of mass destruction. Following faulty intelligence and poor decision making the United States decided to go to war in Iraq over the false belief that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
