[MEGoody]

"The Bush Doctrine" is a media term, and it means different things to different reporters. If Gibson didn't want to explain what he meant by the term, he shouldn't have used it.

What an arrogant jerk.

[J40000]

Exactly! The MSM came up with the ‘doctrine’ and slapped it on President Bush. It’s not HIS doctrine, it’s THEIR propaganda of twisting what he’s doing.

[theothercheek]

He certainly did come off as arrogant, rather than avuncular. I wonder if it was because he was flummoxed as to how to interview a female candidate for high office or whether he was “insulted” that the McCain-Palin campaign “chose” him to do the first big media interview because they thought he’d be soft on Palin. But as is often the case, the MSM winds up getting hoist on its own petard.

[Ben Ficklin]

"The Bush Doctrine is a media term"

For sure Bush didn't say, "such and such is my doctrine, the Bush Doctrine".

The question then becomes, is preemption the Bush Doctrine and when was preemption defined as the Bush Doctrine.

And since the legal basis for preemption was Article 51 of the UN Charter, you can use that phrase to determine.

Or, more plainly put, do a google search of "Article 51 UN Charter Bush Doctrine" or "UN Charter Bush Doctrine"