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Originally posted by Mouse:
Actually Cerek, what I was trying to do was to focus some thought on the justification for a pre-emptive attack on a sovereign state purely on the basis of the accusation that is has the potential or intention to possess WMD's at some point in the future. To me, the invasion of Iraq has established a worrying precident.
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Actually, no it doesn't. Why? Because the Iraq situation was unique. Iraq had been a naughty little boy in the past and had been ordered to open up its programs for inspection, expunge its weapons, and abandond weapons programs. Iraq was under the threat of continued action if it failed to do so, and in fact there was never an end to the 1991 Gulf War, but merely a cease fire. So, for precedential value, Iraq is too unique to really provide anything. I hope your ministers have this argument under their hat if our gummint tries to use Iraq as a precedent for anything.