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"The-Right-Is-Incorrect" |
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16 Mar 2006 12:45:29 PM |
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Quick Draw McGraw sez anybody points a weapon at the U.S. ==> we get to shoot first & ask questions later :-p |
Happiness is a million warm machine guns all pointed at your terrorist
country & away from U.S. (http://tinyurl.com/fqf7p hey kids, forget
Krusty the alkyholic drunk, before he actually became him there was
George Bush's favorite cartoon character, 'Quick Draw McGraw':
http://tinyurl.com/lxyq8)
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Bush Reaffirms Pre-Emptive Use of Force
President Bush's National Security Strategy Reaffirms Pre-Emptive Use
of Military Force
By DEB RIECHMANN
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Undaunted by the difficult war in Iraq, President Bush
reaffirmed his strike-first policy against terrorists and enemy
nations on Thursday and said Iran may pose the biggest challenge for
America.
In a 49-page national security report, the president said diplomacy is
the U.S. preference in halting the spread of nuclear and other heinous
weapons.
"If necessary, however, under long-standing principles of self
defense, we do not rule out the use of force before attacks occur even
if uncertainty remains as to the time and place of the enemy's
attack," Bush wrote.
Titled "National Security Strategy," the report summarizes Bush's plan
for protecting America and directing U.S. relations with other
nations. It is an updated version of a report Bush issued in 2002.
In the earlier report a year after the Sept. 11 attacks, Bush
underscored his administration's adoption of a pre-emptive policy,
marking the end of a deterrent military strategy that dominated the
Cold War.
The latest report makes it clear Bush hasn't changed his mind, even
though no weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq.
"When the consequences of an attack with weapons of mass destruction
are potentially so devastating, we cannot afford to stand idly by as
grave dangers materialize. ... The place of pre-emption in our
national security strategy remains the same," Bush wrote.
The report had harsh words for Iran. It accused the regime of
supporting terrorists, threatening Israel and disrupting democratic
reform in Iraq. Bush said diplomacy to halt Tehran's suspected nuclear
weapons work must prevail to avert a conflict.
"This diplomatic effort must succeed if confrontation is to be
avoided," Bush said.
He did not say what would happen if international negotiations with
Iran failed. The Bush administration currently is working to persuade
Russia and China to support a proposed U.N. Security Council
resolution demanding that Iran end its uranium enrichment program.
A top Iranian official said Thursday that his country was ready to
open direct talks with the United States over Iraq, marking a major
shift in Tehran's foreign policy a day after an Iraqi leader called
for such talks. Ali Larijani, Iran's top nuclear negotiator and
secretary of the country's Supreme National Security Council, told
reporters that any talks between the United States and Iran would deal
only with Iraqi issues.
But any direct dialogue between Tehran and Washington were it to
happen also could be a beginning for negotiations between the two foes
over Iran's suspect nuclear program.
White House press secretary Scott McClellan said the United States was
ready to talk with Iran about Iraq. But he also said that any
discussions must be restricted to that topic and not include other
contentious subjects like Tehran's suspected nuclear weapons program.
Bush also had tough words for North Korea, which he said poses a
serious nuclear proliferation challenge, counterfeits U.S. currency,
traffics in narcotics, threatens its neighbors and starves its people.
"The North Korean regime needs to change these polices, open up its
political system and afford freedom to its people," Bush said. "In the
interim, we will continue to take all necessary measures to protect
our national and economic security against the adverse effects of
their bad conduct."
Bush issued rebukes to Russia and China and called Syria a tyranny
that harbors terrorists and sponsors terrorist activity.
On Russia, Bush said recent trends show a waning commitment to
democratic freedoms and institutions. "Strengthening our relationship
will depend on the policies, foreign and domestic, that Russia
adopts," he said.
The United States also is nudging China down a road of reform and
openness.
"China's leaders must realize, however, that they cannot stay on this
peaceful path while holding on to old ways of thinking and acting that
exacerbate concerns throughout the region and the world," Bush wrote.
He said these "old ways" include enlarging China's military in a
non-transparent way, expanding trade, yet seeking to direct markets
rather than opening them up, and supporting energy-rich nations
without regard to their misrule or misbehavior at home or abroad.
In 2002, when he sent his first report to Congress, Bush was
struggling to persuade U.S. allies to join an offensive to topple
Saddam Hussein.
Since then, the oppressive Taliban regime in Afghanistan was replaced
by a freely elected government. In Iraq, citizens voted in the
nation's first free election, a constitution was passed by referendum
and nearly 12 million Iraqis elected a permanent government.
Challenges remain in Iraq, where sectarian violence threatens the
fragile government and the U.S. death toll has topped 2,300. Secretary
of State Condoleezza Rice has said Iraq's political transition will
take a couple of years. Earlier this week, the Pentagon announced it
was moving about 700 additional U.S. troops into Iraq from Kuwait
because of the escalating killings there and fears that a Shiite
holiday would spark even more violence.
"When the Iraqi government, supported by the coalition, defeats the
terrorists, terrorism will be dealt a critical blow," Bush said,
acknowledging that the fight against terrorism was far from over.
The report is laden with strategies for advancing democracy across the
globe, a theme of Bush's second inaugural address.
The president said his administration was advancing this goal by
holding high-level meetings at the White House with democratic
reformers in repressive nations; using foreign aid to support fair
elections, women's rights and religious freedom; and pushing to
abolish human trafficking.
Countering suggestions that he favors a go-it-alone approach to
foreign policy, Bush emphasized multilateral problem-solving.
"Many of the problems we face from the threat of pandemic disease to
proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, to terrorism, to human
trafficking, to natural disasters reach across borders," he said.
"Effective multinational efforts are essential to solve these
problems. Yet history has shown that only when we do our part will
others do theirs. America must continue to lead."
On the Web:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/nss/2006
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