Shemp wrote: > Yes, Palin didn't know what it is. But > neither does Gibson. > Charlie Gibson blew it, big time.
Apparently he doesn't even know what the 'Bush Doctrine' even is. Preemption isn't a factor of the Bush Doctrine because it's already implicit in the Doctrine of Self Defense. "Bad form and bad journalism on Gibson's part. When Gibson asked the question, I wasn't sure exactly what the Bush Doctrine was. There were a couple of different notions associated with it and I wasn't sure there was a single one that was the Bush Doctrine. I assumed that I was just ignorant, and that Gibson was trying to trip up Palin. Read more: 'Sarah Palin and the Bush Doctrine' By Mike Rappaport The Right Coast, September 11, 2008 http://tinyurl.com/5yfy83 "The main elements of the Bush Doctrine were delineated in a National Security Council document, National Security Strategy of the United States, published on September 20, 2002,[5] and this document is often cited as the definitive statement of the doctrine." Bush Doctrine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_Doctrine