But Sunni Muslims, Druze and many Christians accused it of provoking the war in the first place.
Pakistan was humiliated, yet no Pakistani soldier has been held to account for the mass slaughter that provoked the war.
Mr. Bush even proposed possible staged scenarios to make it appear that Iraq had provoked the war.
He was probably born, therefore, not later than 460 perhaps a few years earlier since his detailed narrative begins, just before 431, with the events which provoked the war.
Many Japanese still believe that the United States and Britain provoked the war in the Pacific when they cut Japan off from Asian sources of oil and rubber in the summer of 1941.
The North's discrimination against the South, which has virtually all of Sudan's oil and other riches, provoked the war.
He also put across the Red, White, and Blue Textbook, written by American educators to prove that Germany provoked the war.
In 1700 Charles II, the last monarch of the Habsburg dynasty, died without an heir, thereby provoking the War of the Spanish Succession (1701 14), a European conflict over control of Spain.
Held responsible for provoking the war and for his country's suffering during World War I, Tisza was assassinated shortly before the end of the war by Magyar leftists.
Finally, it must be remembered that in some instances it was clearly the Roman commander who provoked the war in order to plunder and to win a triumph (e.g., Licinius Lucullus, governor of Nearer Spain, in 151).
