Reply #59: One More Source

[KittyWampus]

http://www.antiwar.com/bock/b091002.html
"There has been talk of a preemptive strike or a
preemptive war. But even if everything that has
been leaked and much, much more turns out to be
true in spades, what the Bush administration is
talking about is not a preemptive war but a
preventive war. That is something the United
States has never done before. We should think
long and hard before we allow our leaders to do it
this time.

"There’s a well-accepted definition for preemptive
war in international law," Joseph Cirincione,
Director of the Non-Proliferation Project of the
Carnegie Endowment, told me on the telephone
last week. "Preemptive war is justified by an
imminent threat of attack, a clear and present
danger that the country in question is about to
attack you. In such a case a preemptive attack is
recognized as justifiable.""