White House aides privately hoped the new NATO assessment would call for so many troops to invade--perhaps up to 150, 000 in Kosovo alone--that it would scare off ground-war advocates.
These were precisely the arguments made by Iraq-war advocates.
On defense, this onetime leatherneck is a strong supporter of the President's war on terrorism and advocates undertaking operations to remove Saddam Hussein once and for all.
But if Italy sends him to Turkey, to be tried by an army-run state security court, they say this could strengthen the advocates of continued war.
McCain campaigned for Bush's re-election in 2004, and the Arizona senator has become one of the strongest advocates for the war in Iraq, the thing that is most likely to define President Bush's legacy.
And while some national environmental organizations such as Greenpeace and the Sierra Club have become staunch wind power advocates in their war against fossils, others who live in proposed wind farm locations have launched strong legal opposition.
Alas, advocates of the Libya war refuse to let the facts interfere with their propaganda.
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As the war in Afghanistan winds down, advocates are pushing for changes to prevent the misuse of money spent on efforts to help transform volatile nations into stable countries.
Kerry was also asked to explain why, despite his criticism of the war as a mistake, he now advocates staying in Iraq, when he advocated leaving Vietnam after returning home from his Navy service there.
Several Kadima MKs were vocal advocates of legislation punishing those waging economic war against Israel.
Instead, Rumsfeld advocates a strategy under which the United States can win one major war decisively, while handling a series of lesser contingencies, including repelling the initial stages of a second major war.
Incidents like these happen, say some of the Lost Boys and their advocates because the resettled young men are trying to escape the nightmares of war.
It was a massive victory for advocates of an open internet, but it was by no means the end of the war.
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