Justification for War Quotes

It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance.

A just fear of an imminent danger, though be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.

After all, if you make your enemy look like a fool, you lose the justification for engaging him.

I was very struck by the fact that Colin Powell said he would produce evidence of Osama bin Laden fault and then never produced it. Then Tony Blair produced a document of seventy paragraphs, but only the last nine referred to the World Trade Center, and they were not convincing. So we have a little problem here: If they're guilty, where is the evidence? And if we can't hear the evidence, why are we going to war?

President Bush comes up with a reason a day as to why we are in Iraq.

There has always been excuses for wars, but NONE of them have been good or valid.

George Bush sold us on going to war with Iraq based on the threat of weapons of mass destruction. But we still haven't found them.

On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction.

George W. Bush and Tony Blair had to convince the world that Saddam Hussein represented an imminent threat. Tony Blair lied when he claimed that Iraq could launch a chemical or biological attack within 45 minutes.