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• I blame the sychophants who hold his flowing robe, more descripitive, a flowing shrowd, growing longer with each death of an american or an Iraqi in Iraq, a death based on heinous preemptive lies. GOP Senator Warner "Reconsidering" Support For Webb Troop Bill
• The difference between contemplating preemptive war and jumping at shadows can become perilously thin.
• Gibson used the word "preemptively" -- but if a knowledgeable person had pushed back on that point ( "Well, preemption was what John F. Kennedy had in mind in acting against the imminent threat of Soviet missiles in Cuba"), Gibson would certainly have come back to explain the novelty of the "preventive war" point. Doggdot.us
• Yet the White House has treated the sudden Republican concern with the deficit as genuine, once again preemptively ceding ground -- three trillion dollars worth of ground -- on all the Bush tax cuts except those aimed at the top two-percent, and then quickly given up the fight for even that relatively thin slice of sanity. Peter Birkenhead: I'll Quit Whining When You Start Fighting
• The part of me that is Petra sees what's going on behind her eyes and decides to make a preemptive strike. CHAMELEON
• He defends himself by saying that tax cuts must be matched by spending restraint, but many conservatives believe that cutting taxes preemptively is the best way to restrain spending -- the "starve the beast" hypothesis. Irony....Coincidence....Or Some Useful Info?
• If they don't stop this process, should the U.S. consider a military preemptive strike?
• * The only thing worse than surrendering preemptively is surrendering immediately after you draw a line in the sand: for no reason I can see, the Obama administration has capitulated to the mindlessMiranda-haters on the right. Some Obama Grumbling « Gerry Canavan
• The doctrine of ‘preemptive’ war will remain in force, and will be used to justify further military actions.
• Some preemptive grovelling can go a long way.