Why war in Iraq? An outside view: no other strategy....

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After the failure of the Euro plan for peace--i.e., the Oslo Accords--and after the continuing threat of terrorism from militant Islamism revealed to all on 9/11, no one but the necons had a strategy to deal with it.

http://www.andrewsullivan.com/main_article.php?artnum=20030324
See link to "The Real Architects," by Andrew Sullivan,
The Sunday Times, 24 March 2002.