Justifications of the Iraq War Examined

Ethics and International Affairs 22 (1):43–67 (2008)
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This paper critically assesses three claims on behalf of the Iraq war made by the Bush administration and by various defenders of the war. Then it steps back from the specifics of these three rationales to ask whether they are in fact of the same sort.

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10.1111/j.1747-7093.2008.00129.x

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