Search as I did, I could never find the word "Aggression" to describe

[KlatooBNikto]

Bush's War on Iraq. Come to think of it, I couldn't find that word to describe the War in Vietnam either.

[G_j]

1. Nuremberg Tribunals: "aggressive war is illegal"

Statement by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert L. Jackson
Chief U.S. Prosecutor
at the Nuremberg Tribunals
August 12, 1945
on War Trials Agreement; August 12, 1945

There are some things I would like to say, particularly to the American people, about the agreement we have just signed.
For the first time, four of the most powerful nations have agreed not only upon the principles of liability for war crimes of persecution, but also upon the principle of individual responsibility for the crime of attacking the international peace.

Repeatedly, nations have united in abstract declarations that the launching of aggressive war is illegal. They have condemned it by treaty. But now we have the concrete application of these abstractions in a way which ought to make clear to the world that those who lead their nations into aggressive war face individual accountability for such acts.
<snip>

"We must make clear to the Germans that the wrong for which
their fallen leaders are on trial is not that they lost the
war, but that they started it. And we must not allow
ourselves to be drawn into a trial of the causes of the war,
for our position is that no grievances or policies will
justify resort to aggressive war. It is utterly renounced
and condemned as an instrument of policy."
<snip>

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert L. Jackson
Chief U.S. Prosecutor
at the Nuremberg Tribunals
August 12, 1945

READ THE ENTIRE STATEMENT HERE:
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/imt/jack02.htm

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The Unthinkable Becomes Normal (November 15, 2004)
Mainstream media trivialize atrocities such as the slaughter in Fallujah by describing attacks on houses, mosques and innocent civilians as "successful operations against insurgents." John Pilger warns that we must not let the media "normalize the unthinkable," and that we should question the hidden agendas of "democratic governments." (New Statesman)
http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/media/2004/1115normal.htm

[punpirate]

2. Here:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%22war+on+Iraq%22+US+aggression&btnG=Search

That's just Google. Do a Nexis search and you'll probably find more hits.

Cheers.

[KlatooBNikto]

3. I should have qualified my post this way: I could not find the word

Aggression in the NYT or WaPo.

[punpirate]

4. Well, that's different...

... even God with a Rolodex couldn't come up with those references.... :)

[KlatooBNikto]

5. LOL!

[spooked911]

6. How about "unprovoked" as well?