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Originally Posted by JPhillips
What makes the Bush doctrine different, and what she failed to address, is that now the policy is that we don't have to wait for threats to develop. Remember the whole, smoking gun may be a mushroom cloud stuff? That's what she should have been pressed on as that's the significant difference in US policy over the last eight years.
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Given the backlash regarding the Iraq situation, it's going to be a lot more difficult for a president to make a pre-emptive move without much better intelligence proof that there is a threat. I think the public in general would have a much tougher reaction unless the president could make his case that it's needed.