ABSTRACT
Introduction By the start of 2002 the Bush administration had decided to pursue regime change as part of the war on terrorism. From the President’s State of the Union Address in January 2002 to his presentation at the United Nations in September 2002, the administration tenaciously constructed a case for war with Iraq. The administration’s strategy involved a period of consultation with other governments, a determined and consistent elaboration of Iraq’s position at the heart of the war on terrorism, and the issuing of demands to Iraq.
