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http://dawnofnewamerica.blogspot.com [The Right Left Story] "The War Behind Closed Doors," FRONTLINE traces the inside story of how those advisers calling themselves "neo-Reaganites," "neo-conservatives," or simply "hawks" set out to achieve the most dramatic change in American foreign policy in half a century: a grand strategy, formally articulated in the National Security Strategy released last September, that is based on preemption rather than containment and calls for the bold assertion of American power and influence around the world.

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http://mideastpolicy.blogspot.com [Middle East Policy] Op-Ed: When U.S. 'realism' means pining for the st...: The grandiloquence of the phrase must have provoked a gnashing of teeth among those who oppose the war in Iraq, but also those who see Bush's idealism as intolerable puffery. Political realists count themselves in the latter category, and last week one of theirs, Foreign Affairs managing editor Gideon Rose, published an impudent commentary in The New York Times informing readers that "the Bush doctrine has collapsed, so the administration has embraced realism, American foreign policy's perennial hangover cure." And what is realism, in Rose's formulation?

The Online Magazine Formerly Known As Rob's Bloghttp://robschumacher.blogspot.com [The Online Magazine Formerly Known As Rob's Blog] The Third Anniversary of the Downing Street Memos: In October 2002, in a notable front-page article titled "For Bush, Facts Are Malleable" (10/22/02), Washington Post reporter Dana Milbank noted two dubious Bush claims about Iraq: his citing of a United Nations International Atomic Energy report alleging that Iraq was "six months away" from developing a nuclear weapon; and that Iraq maintained a growing fleet of unmanned aircraft that could be used, inBush's words, "for missions targeting the United States." While these assertions "were powerful arguments for the actions Bush sought," Milbank concluded they "were dubious, if not wrong.

http://basicint.blogspot.com [Basicint.blogspot.com] Your BASIC Nuclear Weapons Policy Blog: Whether it's WMDs in Iraq or the threat from terrorist missiles, Don Rumsfeld and his doomsayer posse are sure at their best presenting grim faces and dire predictions--whether it's the threat of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq that necessitates preemptively invading a foreign country, or the threat of rogue nations developing intercontinental ballistic missiles that forces through a missile defense system hobbled by decades of technical problems and spiraling funding levels (So

http://www.echochamberproject.com [Echochamberproject.com] Overview of the PR Campaign to Sell the War in Iraq | Echo Chamber ...: The doctrine no doubt was attractive to the Bush administration, as it resonated with the fears of many Americans -- in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, attacks by the terrorist organization Al Qaeda -- that at some point WMD would be unleashed against the United States by rogue elements. Yet, ultimately, when explaining the legal basis for its action against Iraq, the United States did not assert that the invasion of Iraq was permissible under international law due to an evolving right of preemptive self-defense (nor that international law was irrelevant).

[Threedogblog.blogs.com] Three Dog Blog: It's the American people, stupid: Bush foreign policy is defined by three distinctive doctrines: pre-emption, unilateralism, hegemony - all of which assert US power and interests above all else. Or, as Professor John Lewis Gaddis, of Yale's history department, has put it: "In this new game there are no rules."

[Markhumphrys.com] Iraq: Victor Davis Hanson- "The truth is that one can sound moral only through the advocacy of restraint, never preemption. Appeasement wins applause for its ethical posturing and non-belligerency;

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