Libby AUTHORED "Bush Doctrine" of Pre-Emptive War

[UpInArms]

http://slate.msn.com/id/2128530/

excerpt:

Libby is a neocon's neocon. He studied political science at Yale under former Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz and began working with his former teacher under Cheney at the Defense Department during the George H.W. Bush administration, thinking about grand national security strategy in the post-Cold War era. When a document outlining their thinking leaked to the New York Times, the foreign policy establishment, including many of the more moderate voices in the first Bush administration, howled at its call for pre-emptive action against nations developing weapons of mass destruction. After 9/11, what was once considered loony became the Bush Doctrine.

[maddezmom]

1. aka Cheney Doctrine

and yes it's still loony.

[punpirate]

2. Yup, Libby and Wolfowitz wrote it at...

... Cheney's direction. One account I read was that after a copy of it was leaked, ol' Poppy got so bent out of shape that he ordered every copy withdrawn and burned.

Like that was going to stop the true believers.