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To: sandintoes who wrote (22310)	9/12/2008 12:57:32 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25737

Re: "I've never heard of it..had you????" Of COURSE!!!!!! (Do you live in a cave or something?) Sheesh --- EVERYONE in America heard it stated over and over again by Bush and his WH team in the aftermath of the 9-11 attacks, as the legal rationale for the US military attack on the sovereign nation of Afghanistan to overthrow the Taliban regime. Hint: When persons or groups, acting from within the territory of a sovereign nation, ATTACK US... and that sovereign nation either aids and abeits them, or else FALLS to act against them... then WE AMERICANS have the full sovereign right of self defense to act against NOT ONLY THE SPECIFIC GROUP OR INDIVIDUALS WHO DIRECTLY ATTACKED US --- BUT ALSO the Sovereign Nation who supports and succors or shelters them and fails to act against them. I thought that everyone in America knew that.... It was the ONE brilliant and completely appropriate and correct piece of national security policy to come out of the Bush II WH --- and a policy that I have ALWAYS been FULLY IN SUPPORT OF!

To: sandintoes who wrote (22310)	9/12/2008 1:19:21 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25737

The "Bush Doctrine" addressed a very real problem! (The "bin Laden problem" I call it... you do remember the 9-11 attacks, I'm sure.) When we are attacked by INDIVIDUALS, or by other non-state actors, how do we legally respond? Declaring War has always been for nation-to-nation. If the problem is caused by an INDIVIDUAL or by a GROUP, who do you 'declare war' against? Previously the only internationally-recognized legal option would have been in the nature of 'police actions'... not formal declarations of a state of WAR (that would be recognized by the other sovereign nations of Earth). The "Bush Doctrine" SOLVES THAT PROBLEM! By HOLDING THE SOVEREIGN NATION WHERE THE ATTACKS ARE MOUNTED FROM legally responsible for acting against the terrorist groups --- (and legally liable if they don't) --- then it gave the US the LEGAL RIGHT to declare WAR against the NATION OF AFGHANISTAN... or against any other nation in the future that might act the same way by aiding/abetting people who attack us. This was Bush's SIGNATURE national security policy!