The phrase "approved war" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing military actions or conflicts that have received official authorization or endorsement.
Example: "The government announced that the approved war would commence next month, following extensive deliberations in parliament."
Alternatives: "sanctioned conflict" or "authorized military action".
Despite the fact that he remains a saint of the American left, Niebuhr left no doubt that he approved war under the right circumstances, as Obama surely knows.
Secret, internationally approved war crimes indictments of tens of thousands of Nazis have been released to researchers at Soas, University of London, after a seven-year fight, and will soon be made available to the public.
In contrast, three Serbian leaders and two Croatian generals who played crucial roles during the war were acquitted because judges argued that they had not specifically ordered or approved war crimes committed by subordinates.
The list of internationally approved war crimes indictments drawn up by the commission cover important modern categories of crimes, including aggression, genocide, crimes against humanity, modes of liability – including that of mid-level perpetrators - and international procedures, as well as the development of international criminal justice as a whole.
If you doubt any of that, just ask yourselves what we'd be listening to on talk radio, and thus watching on the cable news network, and thus see debated on the floor of Congress, had a bipartisan panel found that President Bill Clinton had approved war crimes that hastened the deaths of thousands of US troops, just before vice-president Al Gore went on ABC News to admit it, and even crow about it.
They lied because we approve war only when we believe it's defensive.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-NV, announced today that the Senate will not approve war funding this calender year unless it is a $50 billion measure that calls for the withdrawal of troops from Iraq and Afghanistan.
The by-now-familiar refrain that Mr. Bush has not yet made any decisions about Iraq may literally be correct, in the sense that he may not yet have approved a war plan, but it smacks of the semantic games that administrations often play to disguise very real preparations for war.
In both surveys, two-thirds of people approved of war in general.
Fifty-seven percent of 12th graders understood the reason Congress approved the War Powers Act.
As they gathered, the House of Representatives had already approved the war resolution.
