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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (451141)	9/1/2003 1:42:02 PM
From: DavesM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

re:"Kosovo was not pre emptive. In that war, we participated as a member of the NATO alliance. NATO's European members were worried that the fighting in Kosovo would destabilize that portion of Europe." That is the meaning of pre-emptive, or forward engagement. more on preemptive action.... iht.com "If Al Gore is elected president, his foreign policy is likely to emphasize pre-emptive diplomacy ... according to the Democratic Party platform and Mr. Gore's foreign policy advisers..." "...The 1998 U.S. missile strikes on suspected terrorist sites in Sudan and Afghanistan were a form of ''forward engagement,'' or preventive diplomacy, which the platform favors, said Michael Nacht, a Gore adviser who is dean of the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley...." 12/16/98 usembassy.it "TRANSCRIPT: CLINTON ON PREEMPTIVE AIRSTRIKES AGAINST IRAQ Washington -- President Clinton ordered America's Armed Forces to strike military and security targets in Iraq December 16 to "attack Iraq's nuclear, chemical, and biological programs, and its military capacity to threaten its neighbors..."