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The “influence campaign” mentioned in an annotation on Rumsfeld’s notes was revved up in the fall of 2001 and continues apace till this day. Part of the effort surely included the administration’s selling of its preemptive invasion of Iraq as a “just war” like the Obama administration’s defense of its deeply unpopular campaign in Afghanistan. A Pentagon official alerted Douglas Feith to an upcoming op-ed by a conservative Catholic theologian who said what the Bush administration wanted to hear: “how pre-emptive action against Iraq fits into the just-war tradition.” Doc. 9 http://www.gwu.edu/nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB326/doc09.pdf Any such claim, however, would seem to have been demolished in a somewhat later State Department intelligence assessment, “Problems and Prospects of ‘Justifying’ War with Iraq,” which examined the seven principles of just war theory one by one and found that they were not met by the Iraq invasion, in planning or in execution. Doc. 11 http://www.gwu.edu/nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB326/doc11.pdf
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