But this was translated into a crackdown on civil liberties, an unnecessary war and some very dark days for the United States.
He was also concerned that his central thesis that the civil war had been unnecessary was self-defeating: wasn't a big book on an unnecessary war itself unnecessary?
But there is a huge difference between wagging the dog (inventing an unnecessary war in order to win an election) and wagging the donkey (wringing partisan advantage out of a necessary conflict).
The Bush Administrations needs to be reminded that our fundamental strategic interest here is clear: Avoid an unnecessary war with a revanchist Russia, on terms that don't appear to reward Russian aggression.
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Combine that frustration and cynicism with Mr Blair's determination to fight, as they would see it, an unnecessary war on false pretences and it is no wonder that the prime minister's standing with female voters has fallen.
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The U.S. does not need yet another unnecessary and unpredictable war in the Muslim world.
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Congressmen genuinely concerned about an unnecessary and illegal war should have voted down the Boehner resolution, which was pro-war and anti-Constitution.
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Many, including myself, warned even before the war began that it was unnecessary, that it would take our energy and attention away from the larger war against terrorism, and that invading and occupying Iraq would leave us strategically vulnerable in the most violent and turbulent corner of the world.
He's consistently caught up in, you know, dishonesty, leading people into a war that's unnecessary.
Had it been implemented, the present war might have proved unnecessary.
Next, presenting himself as a war leader gives him extra arguments against two powerful criticisms: that his economic management has been poor and that the war on Iraq was unnecessary.
Yet, neither the President nor his surrogates mounted a robust and sustained challenge to what amounted to an endlessly repeated "Big Lie" - namely, that the "war in Iraq" was an elective and unnecessary one, launched on the false pretense of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) that did not, in fact, exist and, therefore, in the absence of any real threat to this country.
It does, I think, create an unnecessary and undue burden on those commanders and deprives them of the flexibility they need to wage this war as successfully as they can.
The adoption of preemptive war as an American policy has forced the United States to renounce existing treaties and alliances as unnecessary constraints on our superpower's freedom to act unilaterally.
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