Given this speculation, an interesting dialogue on tyranny and terror and military action in the Senate in January 2005 between Condi and Barack. Dug up by Jed Lewison. I take Rice's points, and made some of them myself. But there seems little doubt whose judgment looks sounder in retrospect.
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