"We are saying to the president today, you can no longer use 9/11 as an excuse for war," said Councilman Charles Barron, a Brooklyn Democrat.
This morning it was all looking bleak for Gordon Brown as he considered whether campaigning alongside a man currently under investigation for falsifying an excuse for war, might actually boost his popularity.
Isolationists in the 1940s accused Franklin Roosevelt of deliberately letting the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbour to provide an excuse for war.
It oversaw the removal of Yanukovich, and its neocons are desperately trying to develop an excuse for war with the Russians.
Rather than tell the men, who would use the incident as an excuse for war, his mother and her friends secretly dispose of his body and spread the word that he has the mumps and is too ill to receive visitors.
The world would have gone nuts and we'd have had an excuse for war in Iraq.
As a mother I want to protect my family from poverty, inequality, ignorance, racism, bigotry, fear, violence and patriotism (an excuse for war).
Russia "should not use peace-keeping as an excuse for war-making", he is quoted by Reuters as saying.
40 Years of Using a Health Crisis as an Excuse for a War One of the most devastating results of this government warfare in response to a severe health crisis is how it turned our community against itself.
If this isn't an excuse for a "war on Xmas", then I'm not sure what is.
But it's a lot easier to justify when they say they're not giving the crazy American government an excuse for another war.
