Sentence examples for on false pretexts from inspiring English sources

Based on false pretexts, we were drawn into a misdirected war that has exacted enormous costs in lives and money.

"Rice helped launch a war on false pretexts and helped authorize torture," wrote public policy professor Meredeth Turshen in an email to students at Rutgers University.

Absent that reckoning, we'll keep doing the same thing over and over, creating more generations of veterans who suffer, more wars based on false pretexts and promises, and more hypocrisy on Veterans Days to come.

At worst, it may be that, as Ms Short claims, he took Britain to war on a false pretext.

After 9/11, the US initiated costly wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, with Iraq invaded on the false pretext that it was developing weapons of mass destruction.

Then it refused to see a Fourth Amendment violation where a citizen was jailed for 16 days on the false pretext that he was being held as a material witness to a crime.

For them, the problem with the US invading Iraq was not that it broke international law on a false pretext, leaving thousands dead or displaced, but that it lost.

The broader charge, which was made last weekend in graphic terms by a vengeful Clare Short (the recently departed international development secretary), was one of the most serious it is possible to make: that the prime minister had knowingly led his country to war on a false pretext.

Long before the George W. Bush Administration went to war in Iraq on a false pretext, Havel identified, in the free as well as the unfree world, "a power grounded in an omnipresent ideological fiction which can rationalize anything without ever having to brush against the truth".

Others contend that the West has already done enough damage in Iraq by invading in 2003, on the false pretext of finding Saddam Hussein's non-existent "Weapons of Mass Destruction", and it should now leave the area well alone.

Sadly the community's closure may have also occurred on a false pretext.