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jefferson_dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-12-08 07:06 AM
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Does McLame agree with the "Bush Doctrine" or Palin's Rambling "Imminent Threat" Standard?
McCain/Bush v. Palin On Preventive War
By Big Tent Democrat, Section Elections 2008
Posted on Fri Sep 12, 2008 at 06:44:14 AM EST

Matt Yglesias captures the dichotomy:

George W. Bush has outlined a doctrine that he calls “preemption” but that’s really prevention or “anticipatory self-defense.” It holds that we should attack other countries that might attack us at some future point even if we have no particular evidence of a specific or imminent plan to do so. As we also know, John McCain agrees with this doctrine. Sarah Palin . . . outlined a different position, advancing an imminent threat standard.

. . . Which naturally raises the question of whether or not McCain discussed the issue of the Bush doctrine, or preventive war, or anticipatory self-defense, before putting her on the ticket.

That is a good question. Hopefully the Media will ask John McCain about the Bush Doctrine and whether he now agrees with Bush's preventive war doctrine that led to the Iraq Debacle or with Palin's sensible "imminent threat" standard.

http://www.talkleft.com/story/2008/9/12/74414/1802
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tekisui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-12-08 07:08 AM
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1. There is a long list of questions that now need to be
asked of mcPOW.

Did you know she was so ignorant? Really, did you?
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