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My view is that given

My view is that given all we have said as a leading world power about the necessity of regime change in Iraq means that our credibility would be badly damaged if that regime change did not take place.

Defense Policy Board member James Schlesinger.

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If you were to compare Iraq to Vietnam, this statement would certainly give you a decent basis for argument. Nixon and Kissinger justified bombing Cambodia and Hanoi in terms of credibility. (Just saw The Trials of Henry Kissinger--a must-see!) Except you could argue that Schlesinger isn't talking about the credibility of the U.S. as a global superpower, but of the Bush Administration itself.

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