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Tom Brosz — (archived)

I think we could arrive at a middle ground if we could see that neither the "no preemptive attack" or the "preemptive attack" approach to foreign policy is without risk and possible terrible consequences.

The intelligence question on Iraq could have fallen either way, and there was no way to know that ahead of time. The consequences of one path, we can see for ourselves, and we get our noses rubbed in it daily. The consequences of the other path, had Iraq in fact been doing everything our intelligence said it was, would also have been difficult to live with. Bush took a risk. Whether it was a fatal one for his presidency remains to be seen, as the verdict is far from in on this. But we at least know for certain that the government of Iraq is no longer even a potential threat.

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