Colin Powell felt it was about disarmament, and about WMD especially.
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The word "ceasefire" doesn't appear. I think the majority of people polled would put WMD at the top of the list of reasons offered before the war.
As to the war on terrorism, I think everyone on both sides of the political debate agrees this will be perhaps the most difficult war ever fought, in the same way the war on drugs has been so difficult, because there is no single enemy with obvious formations to battle, and because there are so many shades of grey.
Pakistan is widely agreed to have been provided aid and support to terrorists, and is a very repressive regime, for example. But Pakistan is a needed ally right now. The IRA is a terrorist group. It's not a danger to America, course, but it is to Britain, a close and valued ally. Is America going after the IRA?
Period, it's as simple as that
Little in life is as simple as that.
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