Does he actually think that Mitt Romney does want to start a war?

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Neither the U.S. or South Korea are going to start a war.

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And the guy you just played a tape of there, he also told a passerby that we want to start a war in London.

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Maybe Microsoft decided to start a war of attrition.

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Mr Olmert, meanwhile, accused Iran of instructing Mr Nasrallah to start a war to distract world attention from Iran's apparent effort to flout the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and build a nuclear bomb.

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And therein lies what may be the most important fact about the new bomber: if enemies fear they have no effective defenses against it, then they will be less inclined to start a war in the first place.

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Then, finding no international support for his intransigence, he decided to reshuffle the deck: start a war that might give him the upper hand--a war that would bring enough international pressure on Israel to enable him to dictate terms.

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But he raised fears that it could start a turf war between the different units in a bid to stay open.

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In the 1960s, a Democrat ad hinted that Barry Goldwater might start a nuclear war.

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But he was careful to add that America should not start a trade war over this.

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For some founders of social networking sites, the end goal isn't necessarily to start a bidding war and cash out fast.

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No-one can view the start of a war - especially a war with fearsome weaponry - with anything other than horror.

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It seems that Barack wants to start a generational war.

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Mr Clerc says that although Maersk, for its part, is not about to start such a war, it would not stand idle if others started to munch its market share.

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Last week, Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg indicated that he had no intention to start a bidding war and planned to build his company's base of corporate clients organically, rather than through acquisition.

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Airbus will not start a trade war.

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So, is Pepsi trying to start a new Cola War?

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But after a bright start the game quickly became more a war of attrition.

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Now that the Megahertz race has faded into the distance (we hear it was a myth), Intel is well and truly kicking off the start of a multi-core war with the demonstration of an 80-core research processor in San Francisco last week.

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Many Arab papers see the superpower confrontation over Syria as the start of a new Cold War by proxy, although one commentator says the Russian and Chinese positions could change.

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If Mr. Obama implies (as he no doubt will) that Mr. Romney wants to start a third Middle Eastern war, the answer is that the only way to prevent one is to let Tehran know we're deadly serious.

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At first, the Secretary of War, a Cabinet member who, from the start, was a civilian, was called the Secretary at War, a holdover from the Revolution but also a prepositional manifestation of an ideological commitment: the department was chiefly to be called upon only if the nation was at war.

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The army and police have made a start on relaxing their war-footing, with demolition planned of several heavily fortified barracks.

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Because an American attack could well begin without the Rats, these considerations may reveal little about exactly when a war may start.

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In the Jerusalem speech, Romney defended a hard-line stance on Iran as a deterrent to war, rather than a desire to start one.

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So when Senator Clinton says -- or President Clinton says that I wasn't opposed to the war from the start or says it's a fairytale that I opposed the war, that is simply not true.

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NATO's opening position is that it must lead and dominate a post-war occupation force in Kosovo, while Serbia (and its Russian friends) insist, for a start, that those who ran the air war would be the least suitable keepers of Kosovo's peace.

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"We need to start fighting like we're in a war, " says HIA counsel Melody Harned.

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The gold standard was an international institution, and after 1914 and the start of the World War I, a host of major participants (including the U.S., in 1917), suspended gold convertibility.

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This war didn't start with a long air campaign, as was the case in 1991.

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