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Originally Posted by cthulu23
Hmmm, I have a hard time believing that all of the WMD nonsense was just a smoke screen by the Administration. Why would they humiliate themselves in front of the world? This is the administration that coined the doctrine of preemption...would they really be coy about the "example" motive?
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That's not what I'm saying at all. The vast majority of countries believed that there was a high likelihood that Iraq had wmd's and they had a desire for nukes. Combining the two with terrorist support is not something you can gamble with. This was not the only argument to invade Iraq however. Making an example of this "rogue" was certainly on the list.
Can anyone give a reasonable example of how the US (and the world) could dissuade state sponsors of terrorism from such support with only the threat of economic sanctions in their bag of options?