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Clark on the preemption doctrine:

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Posted to Robbedvoter's weblog on Mon Dec 22nd, 2003 at 10:19:58 PM EST


Democratic debate statement

And just to pick up on what John Kerry said, this administration's preemptive doctrine is causing North Korea and Iran to accelerate their nuclear weapons development.

Now, there are some of us who aren't in Washington right now. But I'd like to ask all those who are -- let's see some leadership in the United States Congress. Let's see you take apart that doctrine of preemption now. I don't think we can wait until November of 2004 to change the administration on this threat. We're marching into another military campaign in the Middle East. We need to stop it.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A5841-2003Oct9& ;notFound=true
Congress testimony - Sept 26, 2002:



Clark opposes the preemption doictrine - inappropriate for regime change and no time limitation
http://www.videos4clark.com/vidclips/15.wmv
preemptive vs preventive



http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3983123/
But Clark, the West Point debate team captain, insists on responding to those attacks by teaching something of a college short-course on the difference between "pre -emptive" and "preventative" war. On the campaign bus, he tried it again and landed on a slightly better definition of why Bush's war was a preventative war and why it was dangerous. He urged common sense by evoking the Vietnam-era talk of destroying a village in order to save it. "The whole idea that we should have a war now so we don't have to fight one later has always struck a lot of people as really bad," he said. "It's a case of logic overriding common sense." That was part of a sound-bite answer that voters could digest and his opponents would find more difficult to demagogue