According to this morning’s Washington Post the President intends to reaffirm his policy of preemptive war against what he would term “terrorist and hostile states with weapons of mass destruction."

There’s a host of problems with this, not the least of which is the fact that this President should have no credibility at this point.  In fact his credibility should be less than zero.  The number of times this administration has played the incompetence card to explain its failings alone are unimaginable. 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/15/AR2006031502297.html

Bush to Restate Terror Strategy

2002 Doctrine of Preemptive War To Be Reaffirmed

By Peter Baker

Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, March 16, 2006; Page A01

President Bush plans to issue a new national security strategy today reaffirming his doctrine of preemptive war against terrorists and hostile states with chemical, biological or nuclear weapons, despite the troubled experience in Iraq.

The long-overdue document, an articulation of U.S. strategic priorities that is required by law, lays out a robust view of America's power and an assertive view of its responsibility to bring change around the world. On topics including genocide, human trafficking and AIDS, the strategy describes itself as "idealistic about goals and realistic about means."

Genocide?  Did someone say genocide?  We’ve committed more genocide in Iraq in the last thirteen years than Mr. Hussein did in his entire reign. The last numbers I saw showed that we’d reduced the population of Iraq by almost two million.  Not bad for a decades work. 

You can look at it this way if you’d like.  Name one thing that Iraq ever did to the United States.  I bet you can name several things the United States has done to Iraq including use it as a puppet state to make war with Iran in the past, but I bet you can’t name a single thing Iraq has ever done to the United States.

Human Trafficking?  Oh, you mean that stuff that United States Government and UN contractor DynCorp got caught doing? Women and young children sold as slaves and what not.  I remember now.  United States ally Israel likes to do this too.  You’ve got to get high quality prostitutes somewhere after all.

Perhaps as so often is the case George is just fumbling his words again.  No wait.  If you read what’s written it says:

a robust view of America's power and an assertive view of its responsibility to bring change around the world. On topics including genocide, human trafficking and AIDS, the strategy describes itself as "idealistic about goals and realistic about means."

Well it doesn’t say whether it intends positive or negative change.  Idealistic about goals is certainly broad enough.  That would all depend on your personal agenda.  Perhaps what we've done in Iraq does fit with the goals of the Bush regime.

It’s also worth noting that it references preemptive war not preemptive strikes or attacks but war.  There is a difference and a significant one.  One implies taking away the ability of someone you believe would, to harm you.  The other implies a long drawn out conflict with another sovereign nation because we think they might be a threat.  Worse it implies picking on those that are smaller and weaker than you.  There is no country in existence today that fits the model better of being a risk to the United States, having weapons of mass destruction, and most definitely will not be engaged in a preemptive war than China.

The preemption doctrine generated fierce debate at the time, and many critics believe the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq fatally undermined an essential assumption of the strategy -- that intelligence about an enemy's capabilities and intentions can be sufficient to justify preventive war.

In his revised version, Bush offers no second thoughts about the preemption policy, saying it "remains the same" and defending it as necessary for a country in the "early years of a long struggle" akin to the Cold War. In a nod to critics in Europe, the document places a greater emphasis on working with allies and declares diplomacy to be "our strong preference" in tackling the threat of weapons of mass destruction.

George, you have no credibility.  You have robbed this country of its pride.  You've turned us into a fascist regime.  You've supposedly spent billons to rebuild Iraq already and they don’t even have power and running water.  You continue to get our brave troops killed in Iraq to enrich Halliburton, Blackwater, DynCorp, and a host of other companies.  These are the same companies that you will turn on the American people with your belief that you are above the law.  What delusions of grandeur you seem to suffer from.  I only wonder what will the real cost be to America in the end. 

"If necessary, however, under long-standing principles of self defense, we do not rule out use of force before attacks occur, even if uncertainty remains as to the time and place of the enemy's attack," the document continues. "When the consequences of an attack with WMD are potentially so devastating, we cannot afford to stand idly by as grave dangers materialize."

Such language could be seen as provocative at a time when the United States and its European allies have brought Iran before the U.N. Security Council to answer allegations that it is secretly developing nuclear weapons. At a news conference in January, Bush described an Iran with nuclear arms as a "grave threat to the security of the world."

Many in the world would certainly describe the United States in those same terms.  We all know, or should, that Iran does not have nukes.  The experts have already said so.  But still the Washington Crime Syndicate continues to ratchet up the rhetoric around Iran, the goal to wage a preemptive war.

IAEA No Iran Nukes: http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1669447&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

 

This President has spent more money than all the others combined.  Our economy will collapse as it cannot absorb all of the debt that has been created.  America will grow more and more hated around the world.  Meanwhile at home the Constitution is being shredded by this President as well.  Don’t worry though, it’s not just foreign countries, I’m sure he has a complete strategy for preemptive war on the American people too.