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Palin vs Bush

By The Daily Dish
Sep 12 2008, 11:57 AM ET

Hilzoy delves into Palin's answer on the Bush doctrine:

When, as Palin said, "there is legitimate and enough intelligence that tells us that a strike is imminent against American people", the claim that we have the right to preempt that strike does not require the Bush Doctrine; it just requires the old, and much more widely accepted, doctrine of preemption. That is: in what Palin says here, she's not actually supporting the Bush Doctrine at all. She's just saying what generations of American Presidents and candidates have said: that when a country is actually about to attack us, we don't have to wait for them to actually land a blow before we can strike back.

Palin opposes the Bush Doctrine and opposed the surge! The absurdity of her candidacy is beginning to become clearer and clearer.



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