Politico: The Grassy Knoll

David Ray Griffin: Bush Doctrine enters American vocabulary (San Francisco Gate)

Posted from 911blogger.com blogs 69 days ago

David Ray Griffin Friday, September 26, 2008 Thanks to the Sept. 11 interview of Sarah Palin by Charles Gibson of ABC News, the Bush Doctrine has become part of the American vocabulary. Although it has been a fateful doctrine - it was used to justify the attack on Iraq - many Americans reported that they were as clueless about it as Gov. Palin. So what is the Bush Doctrine? According to international law as generally understood since the creation of the United Nations, a pre-emptive attack is legal only if a country has certain knowledge that an attack on it is imminent - too imminent for the... (original story)