Sentences with phrase «preemptive war against»

The preemptive war against Iraq is not «a great moral cause and a great strategic goal,» as President Bush claims.

Both would rule out as immoral a preemptive war against Iraq.

The «grave and gathering danger» hanging over the world is not so much the danger that Saddam Hussein presents (as President Bush insists) but the danger of American preemptive war against Iraq.

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War was then on the horizon, and Stalin felt he had no choice but to take preemptive action against what he saw as a potential fifth column - a group that would undermine the larger collective.

Another GW Bush kind of guy leading us for some «God told» crusade to launch some «preemptive» wars, this time against maybe Iran, or China???? The price tag?

The passions of war aroused, we diverted attention from Afghanistan to the prospect of a preemptive strike against Iraq, not simply to remove banned weapons but to replace the regime.

In September 2002, when a hundred scholars and ethicists signed a petition that read, «As Christian ethicists, we share a common moral presumption against a preemptive war on Iraq by the United States,» Elshtain was not numbered among the signatories.

And I would say for sure this threat of a US preventive war — quote unquote preventive war, whatever that is, illegal preemptive strike against North Korea — would have so much freaked out the North and the South Koreans that, I mean the Congressional Research Service says that in the opening days of a conventional military conflict, three hundred thousand people would be killed, right?