In 2003, American and British leaders justified attacking Iraq not as a hostile effort to kill Iraqis but as an act of liberation and of self-defense against presumed weapons of mass destruction. Social psychologists would consider this an example of _____ aggression.
A) manipulative
B) duplicitous
C) hostile
D) instrumental

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This is an example of instrumental aggression because the justification for the attack was to achieve a specific goal (to remove presumed weapons of mass destruction), rather than a hostile intent to harm Iraqis.

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