Thanks for making the point about "POTUS's unconventional strategy of preventive invasion," John. This is one of the things that most provoked my outrage during the run-up to the war. As author Thomas Ricks, in his thoughtful critique of the motivations and handling of the invasion, "Fiasco," says of the Bush administration's new doctrine of preemption: "[it was] an astonishing departure from decades of [U.S.] practice and two centuries of tradition."

Mike W.
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