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wrong again, bunko..! There is no such thing, it's a term, and can be various things, kind of like her answer indicated....
You said it yourself, it's a phrase, nothing more... sorry... demos lose again
Objective, third-party links and yet you still won't acknowledge it. Hopeless.
Absolutely jest. It's becoming harder and harder to pick out policy matters in the personal attack ads or the sensationalism of the media about who has the worst family and friends record.
Having said that, I find the Great Debates forum a little less, what's the word, satisfying?
wrong again, bunko..! There is no such thing, it's a term, and can be various things, kind of like her answer indicated....
You said it yourself, it's a phrase, nothing more... sorry... demos lose again
You know less than Palin does, but of course, you are not running for V.P., either
You know less than Palin does, but of course, you are not running for V.P., either
It's crazy, isn't it. Look at how little evidence it took to get us into Iraq, and yet some will not believe that the Bush Doctrine, even with all the documentation, some of which is out of the mouth of Republican leadership, is real. Sad. Very sad.
wrong again, bunko..! There is no such thing, it's a term, and can be various things, kind of like her answer indicated....
You said it yourself, it's a phrase, nothing more... sorry... demos lose again
Said with the credibility of a man that thinks Cheney is a great man.
Interesting read by the man that coined the phrase "The Bush Doctrine."
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The New York Times got it wrong. And Charlie Gibson got it wrong.
There is no single meaning of the Bush Doctrine. In fact, there have been four distinct meanings, each one succeeding another over the eight years of this administration -- and the one Charlie Gibson cited is not the one in common usage today. It is utterly different.
He asked Palin, "Do you agree with the Bush Doctrine?"
She responded, quite sensibly to a question that is ambiguous, "In what respect, Charlie?"
Sensing his "gotcha" moment, Gibson refused to tell her. After making her fish for the answer, Gibson grudgingly explained to the moose-hunting rube that the Bush doctrine "is that we have the right of anticipatory self-defense.
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I know something about the subject because, as the Wikipedia entry on the Bush Doctrine notes, I was the first to use the term. In the cover essay of the June 4, 2001, issue of the Weekly Standard entitled, "The Bush Doctrine: ABM, Kyoto, and the New American Unilateralism," I suggested that the Bush administration policies of unilaterally withdrawing from the ABM treaty and rejecting the Kyoto protocol, together with others, amounted to a radical change in foreign policy that should be called the Bush Doctrine.
Then came 9/11, and that notion was immediately superseded by the advent of the war on terror. In his address to the joint session of Congress nine days after 9/11, President Bush declared: "Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists. From this day forward any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime." This "with us or against us" policy regarding terror -- first deployed against Pakistan when Secretary of State Colin Powell gave President Musharraf that seven-point ultimatum to end support for the Taliban and support our attack on Afghanistan -- became the essence of the Bush Doctrine.
Until Iraq. A year later, when the Iraq war was looming, Bush offered his major justification by enunciating a doctrine of preemptive war. This is the one Charlie Gibson thinks is the Bush doctrine.
[quote=Ibginnie;5246674]Interesting read by the man that coined the phrase "The Bush Doctrine."
Yes, and she could have answered with any of those related iterations of the Bush Doctrine, but she obviously had never even heard of the term.
She didn't have a problem often answering questions tonight with answers that had little to do with the question. But the specificity of the term "Bush Doctrine" made her crap herself, and it's because she had no idea what it was, not in any of its evolving, though certainly intricately related, iterations.
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