From the department of Newspeak
Officials are concerned that if America strikes first, it will appear the U.S. has started a war. [→ READ ]
The irony of all this [who shoots first talk] is that if the United States doesn’t have a resolution, Iraq would be perfectly justified in attacking first, both under the logic of the Bush Doctrine and Article 51 of the the U.N. charter.
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