Bush defends his national security policy (defends the "Bush Doctrine")

[sabra]

Source: AP

President George W. Bush says the U.S. has taken the fight against terrorists worldwide.

The president spoke Tuesday to cadets at the U.S. Military Academy. Bush gave a full-throated defense of his policy, known as the Bush Doctrine, of pre-emptive military action.

He said after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the country resolved that it would not be attacked again and would go on offense.

Bush said the U.S. saw the urgency of staying a step ahead of our enemies.

It was at West Point on June 1, 2002, that Bush evoked the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor and Gen. George C. Marshall's words about the United States as a symbol of freedom and power as he described a new, robust military policy.

Read more: http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2008/12/09/ap5799001.html

[Mist]

1. Well, he's ALMOST right--it's more like "The Bush/Cheney cabal has

taken terrorism worldwide."

[ixion]

2. why is this puerile dogma still accepted as legitimate?

Bush has destroyed our international standing for generations to come, and looted the treasury under the same guise. This cabal has launched full-scale illegal invasions of sovereign nations using bogus intelligence as a rationale. They have consistently shown complete disregard and disrespect for the rule of law, the Constitution and Bill of Right, not to mention the entire US populace.

The are responsible for killing hundreds of thousands of human beings with our tax dollars, and in our name.

Their "energy policy" was to game the system in favor of Big Energy.

Their "fiscal policy" tripled the national debt.

Airports now resemble concentration camps.

Our phones are being tapped 24/7, as is our email, chat messages, web sites visited, etc.

We're facing the largest financial meltdown since the Great Depression.

We torture.

The Bush cabal has eliminated or emasculated both Habeus Corpus and Posse Comitatus.

Such is the "Bush Doctrine" in a nutshell.

[xxqqqzme]

4. You should send that concise

list to the * legacy fabrication team. They should really be working from a basic beginner's list such as yours.

Reviewing the list - there is a lifetime plus of work.....Who is paying hughes & saurove's salary to put give substance to the * house of smoke & mirrors?

[Baby Snooks]

5. Why?

Why? Because Madame Speaker decided we would not have an impeachment, even an attempt at impeachment, which might have restored our honor.

We are a shameful nation, Madame Speaker, and are a shameful nation in great part because of you. You will no doubt burn in Hell along with the Bushes. Who you seem to serve rather than the American people. Along with those who felt power was more important than principle.

The Democrats have taken back Congress and the White House. And absolutely nothing will change.

[acmavm]

18. I agree with every word you said UP TO the last sentence. As for the

future, I still hold out hope. I hope that I get a big surprise and the powers-that-be meant it when they said that they wanted to right the crimes and sins of this administration. I hope, I hope, I hope.

[Name removed]

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[ixion]

11. you like living in a police state so much, go live in China

This is the land of the Free and the Brave, or at least it was before commander bunnypants. I will not live my life in fear, but feel free to continue to do so yourself, just not here.

[nebenaube]

12. go f**k yourself t****or! n/t

[MilesColtrane]

14. There's a stone boogie board in your future, son.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

16. 9/11 happened on bush's watch. wasnt that bad enough? why does it have to happen twice in his watch

for him to be judged?

i have problems having my calls monitored BECAUSE i am doing nothing wrong. i shouldnt have to prove it to my govt.

How was it barney franks fault? i thought you guys were blaming bill clinton.

[Arctic Dave]

17. Douche baggery is not allowed here.

Get the facts straight before piping up assclown.

[hyphenate]

19. troll eom

[rasputin1952]

22. This sack of troll is no longer w/us...but I'm going to leave this

post up so you all can all play Kick The Corpse" for a while.

Not very often we get a Goomer like this right out of the gate, and I figure he deserves a good kicking around for a bit...:D

Have Fun!!!

[rasputin1952]

23. Drat, someone already pulled the post...

:(

[La Lioness Priyanka]

15. kudos

[Fir]

3. My take on Bush..............

...........trying to get the propaganda out earlie on his 'splendid' legacy.

It makes me think of a little boy, whistling on the dark to fend off the tigers and bears in the woods with him.

Nice touch that the biggest text book publishing for the nations school systems is in Texas. So it might be a good thing to keep an eye on future history books, in your kids schools.

[No Elephants]

6. Pre-emptive war? Even that is bs. No one has yet shown that Saddam was going to attack us. The

real name for choosing an unprovoked invasion of a country is international crime . Yeah, I guess "Bush Doctrine" fits.

[Algorem]

7. How can a piece of shit have a "doctrine"?

[BrklynLiberal]

8. "In what respect?"

[hyphenate]

24. You forgot to add the

"Charlie" to the quote. Must not forget "Charlie!"

Strange.....I always liked Charlie Gibson--thought he was a good guy. It makes it nice that he was the one to stop Sarah the Wonder Kewpie in her uninformed tracks.

[BrklynLiberal]

25. Sorry. You are absolutely right. It was not as good without the "Charlie"

[BrotherBuzz]

10. "You're either with us or against us" is lousy foreign policy

[nightrain]

13. doin the CYA and attempting to re-write history again Georgie? are you

having some second thoughts about yourself? I hope so.

[truthcounts]

20. No one is listening...

Just for the record 99.999999% of the calls that are monitored are from someone outside of the country to someone outside the country. The US just owns most of the networks that these calls go through. So don't get too paranoid, there isn't anyone listening in on your daily conversations.

[LynnTheDem]

21. George W. "lowest ratings of any US president" bUsh says a lot of things.

None of which mean fucking squat.