Sentence examples for excuse for war from inspiring English sources

There is no excuse for war crimes.

It is only an arrogant, after-the-fact excuse for war.

It oversaw the removal of Yanukovich, and its neocons are desperately trying to develop an excuse for war with the Russians.

That the administration was determined to invade Iraq is now well established; W.M.D.'s were the excuse for war, not the reason.

Isolationists in the 1940s accused Franklin Roosevelt of deliberately letting the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbour to provide an excuse for war.

"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.

Russia "should not use peace-keeping as an excuse for war-making", he is quoted by Reuters as saying.

It is a sad fact that people are often ready to find excuses for war crimes -- "they did it to us as well," the argument goes, or "it was war, and in war these things happen".

Perhaps turning more to this meaning of "I Am," will bring us back to who we truly are, beyond our excuses for war.

What the proponents of this view overlook, however, is the fact that Iran's nuclear issue or Ahmadinejad's controversial statements about Israel are no more than distractions and excuses -- distractions from land grabbing, and excuses for war profiteering.

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.