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Thank you for explaining your position. Nevertheless, with your explanation, which I for the most part agree with, Iraq still remains a preventive war because Iraq posed no imminent threat to the United States (i.e. it was not posturing to attack us). It was a preventive war because we went in in order to prevent them from getting enough weapons to attack and getting in the position to attack the United States or others.
There was no need for an "imminent threat" provision because the Gulf War had never officially ended. The queation of imminent threat would only apply, in recent times, to Libya. At least that's the leg BHO must supposedly stand on.