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  • The question arises which will come first the Chicken or the Egg or both at the same time, will the catalyst be the Third Jewish Temple or the Pre-Emptive Nuclear Attack upon, the Republic of Iran, or both in injunction.

    Matthew Yglesias » Endgame 2010

  • As of yesterday, for example, The Onion's YouTube video "U.S. Condemned for Pre-Emptive Use of Hillary Clinton Against Pakistan" had over 125,000 views while excerpts from the question-and-answer session between Mrs. Clinton and seven Pakistani journalists, which appeared on Pakistani television, had a tenth of that.

    Mayhill Fowler: A New Foreign Policy: Hillary Clinton Targets Pakistan 2009

  • You can go around in circles all you want about where the "Bush Doctrine" ends, and where "The Doctrine of Pre-Emptive Strike" begins, and whether Charlie Gibson, a news anchor, should know more about it then Sarah Palin, a vice-presidential candidate.

    Sarah Palin On Bush Doctrine: Homina, Homina, Homina 2009

  • Obama and "Pre-Emptive Capitulation" as a Modality of Democratic Governance yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Obama and "Pre-Emptive Capitulation" as a Modality of Democratic Governance'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: This is a polemic against the "weak-kneed" approach to progressive policies by "team Obama."

    Obama and "Pre-Emptive Capitulation" as a Modality of Democratic Governance 2009

  • VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Conservative Lawyers Urge Bush To Issue ˜Pre-Emptive Pardons\' To Officials Involved In Illegal Programs '; yahooBuzzArticleSummary =' Such a pardon would reduce the risk that a future administration might undertake a criminal investigation of operatives or policy makers involved in programs that administration lawyers have said were legal but that critics say violated laws regarding torture and surveillance.

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Conservative Lawyers Urge Bush To Issue ��Pre-Emptive Pardons' To Officials Involved In Illegal Programs 2008

  • When the police arrive, just tell them you launched a “Pre-Emptive Strike”.

    Think Progress » Fox News: “Are ‘Scoops’ More Important To Media Than Stopping Terror?” 2006

  • Pre-Emptive war based upon false information and fabrications.

    Archive 2007-03-01 News from Mad Plato 2007

  • As with their Pre-Emptive War, the War Nuts in the White House have also lied to us and themselves that Global Warming was just a theory.

    SAVE IT OR LOSE IT News from Mad Plato 2007

  • It was a Pre-Emptive Invasion, then an Occupation, and now a Civil War.

    YANKEE GO HOME...AGAIN News from Mad Plato 2007

  • Insurgents have been home-grown and home-sown by an unnecessary, deceitful and premeditated Pre-Emptive war.

    Archive 2007-03-01 News from Mad Plato 2007

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