Sentence examples for justification for war from inspiring English sources

Blair announced that: "Regime change alone could not be and was not our justification for war.

In this country, Colin Powell has declared that questions about the justification for war are "outrageous".

If it does not do so, we will have a plausible justification for war.

Intelligence was politicized from the top down to provide a justification for war.

Justification for war is the responsibility of politicians and the people who vote for them, not soldiers.

But some experts think it might be hard to turn Iraqi dilatory tactics into a justification for war.

These assertions formed the basis of Mr. Bush's justifications for war.

Mr Bush and his advisers have managed little by way of damage control, save continuing to emphasise the broader justifications for war.

But it's more credible than the case the administration has been making, which has been much more expansive in its justifications for war, and therefore much less credible in its promise of a strictly limited involvement.

But it galls and distresses her that she is increasingly unsure whether Nick's loyalty to PM and his WMD-justifications for war are a matter of professional duty or brainwashed self-deception.

Rebels typically claim that they are fighting their governments to right religious, ethnic and political wrongs, it says, but it suggests that those are often either coincidental or ex post facto justifications for war.