SAVING THE PRESIDENT FROM HIMSELF

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As the Reeves column below reminds us, whenever and wherever * and Co or anybody else used or uses the phrase "pre-emptive war", they are, by the DOD dictionary definition saying imminent.

DOD dictionary

pre-emptive war

"An attack initiated on the basis of incontrovertible evidence that an enemy attack is imminent."




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"A preventive war, to my mind, is an impossibility," said the president of the United States. "I don't believe there is such a thing, and frankly I wouldn't even listen to anyone seriously that came in and talked about such a thing."

-- President Eisenhower, answering a press conference question in 1954.


SAVING THE PRESIDENT FROM HIMSELF
Thu Oct 2, 8:42 PM ET Add Op/Ed - Richard Reeves to My Yahoo!

By Richard Reeves

WASHINGTON


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Times change. We don't really have many press conferences anymore. We have just fought -- or are still fighting -- a preventive war. And we do now have a definition for such a thing in the Department of Defense Dictionary of Military Terms: "A war initiated in the belief that military conflict, while not imminent, is inevitable and that to delay would involve greater risk."


The White House does not like the term "preventive war," at least as it pertains to Iraq. President Bush and his team prefer "pre-emptive war." But that is a different thing, according to the DOD dictionary: "An attack initiated on the basis of incontrovertible evidence that an enemy attack is imminent."


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What we did in Iraq, where the threat to us was neither inevitable nor imminent, is only the fourth war in two centuries that might be considered "preventive." That, at least, is the judgment of the Correlates of War Project at the University of Michigan, which since 1963 has been studying the conditions that lead to war and lesser military crises. The project identifies 85 wars and 2,000 military crises around the world going back to the beginning of the 19th century. Only three other wars had "some" preventive motivation.

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George W. Bush turns out to be a man determined to right many wrongs, a man not satisfied to build just America, but ready to build other nations in our image. Or his. But he is a man, ignorant or dismissive of history, who must be slowly getting the idea of why wiser predecessors refused to do what he has now done. He has fallen into the pit, and it is up to the rest of us to help pull him out.




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[RC]

3. Leave him in the pit.

"George W. Bush turns out to be a man determined to right many wrongs, a man not satisfied to build just America, but ready to build other nations in our image. Or his. But he is a man, ignorant or dismissive of history, who must be slowly getting the idea of why wiser predecessors refused to do what he has now done. He has fallen into the pit, and it is up to the rest of us to help pull him out."

George Walker Bu$h & his co-conspirators has Wronged too many Rights and is working to destroy that which is/was so great about America. Dumbing down our schools to keep the next generation ignorant. Exporting our jobs for short term monatary gain. Emptying the Treasury for his friends. Doing his best to make America a 3rd world country. Why do so many not see this?

[Brucey]

2. Good stuff, though

I doubt very much if Bush* or any of the self-righteous neocons or their sheeple followers are getting the idea of why they are wrong, or even that they are wrong. These guy just rationalize and blame everything on Clinton.