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"It's ominous that the Administration would even attempt to resuscitate its radical doctrine of preventive war. By any standard, it's been an utter failure in Iraq and has weakened our security, not strengthened it. This dangerously incompetent Administration is obviously incapable of learning from its own history, and on the three-year anniversary of the Iraq war, we can only pray that we're not being condemned to repeat it."

MAKING no apologies for the war in Iraq, the United States today reaffirmed its strike-first policy of preemption and warned Iran could pose the biggest threat to US national security. "We may face no greater challenge from a single country than from Iran," the White House said in a 49 page blueprint called The National Security Strategy of the United States of America. The report drew up a balance sheet of what it called US President George W. Bush's foreign policy successes and remaining "challenges" like bloody violence in Iraq and tense stand-offs over nuclear programs in Iran and North...

Joe Lieberman: U.S. Prepared for Iran Strike Sen. Joe Lieberman said Sunday that the U.S. is prepared to deal with the Iranian nuclear crisis militarily - even if the war in Iraq continues to require a substantial American troop commitment. "We have the most powerful military in the history of the world," Lieberman told CBS's "Face the Nation." "We are capable, if necessary, of continuing to pursue our aims militarily in Iraq and Afghanistan and elsewhere and, if necessary, conduct a military attack on Iran." Lieberman said the he hoped an attack on Iran, if it should come, would be...

International law is not a suicide pact. Fashioned to ensure the survival of states in a world still lacking global government, these binding rules emphasize the right of national self-defense. This right may be exercised not only after an attack has already been suffered, but also in advance, if the defensive first strike can meet certain essential conditions. Consider Iran. President Bush has assuredly authorized the Pentagon to prepare plans for the pre-emptive destruction of that country's developing nuclear installations. Leaving aside the difficult tactical side of such an operation, a prior question arises: Would this particular pre-emption be permissible...

Member of the Axis of Evil North Korea has stepped up its rhetoric and is rattling its nuclear saber. While they have spoken now directly with the White House and has shown signs of being willing to return to the nuclear negotiations table, they have now mentioned the following: "The United States should be aware that the choice of a pre-emptive attack is not only theirs," the North's official news agency quoted the state-run newspaper Minju Joson as saying. "To stand against force with force is our unswerving method of response." First of all we can thank Bill Clinton and...

What was most surprising about the papers? These military plans and after-action reports show how unrealistic the Soviets were in planning for conflicts that included nuclear launches. Military planners assumed that cities like Munich, Vienna, and other major urban centers would be obliterated by nuclear weapons, yet within a matter of days they assumed that Warsaw Pact forces would be able to sweep through those areas with no ill effects. It's very clear that they completely glossed over the reality of what it would mean to be marching through a nuclear wasteland. It's only in 1987--after the Chernobyl accident--that a...

Israel 'should attack nuclear sites in Iran if diplomacy fails'From Ian MacKinnon in Jerusalem   A PRE-EMPTIVE Israeli strike against Iran’s nuclear installations would be fraught with risks and difficulties, but it would set back significantly Tehran’s development programme, a respected think-tank in Tel Aviv said yesterday. However, the bombing of Iran’s facilities — a possibility that appeared to increase with the revelation last month that the United States had agreed to sell Israel “bunker buster” bombs — should be the last resort, said researchers from the Jaffee Centre for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University.     After...

President George W. Bush said on Monday his administration would maintain its policy of pre-empting potential security threats despite growing doubts over the adequacy of US intelligence to assess such dangers. In a speech at the Oak Ridge nuclear facility in Tennessee, Mr Bush made clear he would not rethink the approach after Friday's damning report by the Senate intelligence committee. The report concluded that the Central Intelligence Agency made serious errors in asserting that Saddam Hussein's Iraq possessed or was developing weapons of mass destruction. While acknowledging that the report "has identified some shortcomings in our intelligence capabilities", he...

Japan has asked the United States to maintain its 'nuclear card' in negotiations with North Korea in a bid to prevent Pyongyang from using nuclear weapons against Japan, a newspaper report said Friday. A US promise not to use nuclear weapons against North Korea would plunge Japan's security into great danger if six-nation talks fail to stop Pyongyang's nuclear drive, the mass-circulation Yomiuri newspaper said. Mitoji Yabunaka, head of the Japanese foreign ministry's Asian and Oceanian affairs bureau, conveyed the request to US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs James Kelly in Washington last week,...

TWA 800: Pilots speak out Posted: May 17, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com After my most recent trip to Washington last weekend, I have come to one sorry conclusion: The only people who believe that a fuel-tank problem destroyed TWA Flight 800 sit in America's major media newsrooms. They certainly don't sit in the cockpits of America's airliners. After some 200 radio and TV interviews and a score of live appearances, I have talked to at least 100 airline pilots. Of those, exactly one supported the government thesis. What follows are some of the unsolicited e-mails I have...

NEW DELHI, April 5: Russia and India will conduct a joint naval exercise in the Indian Ocean next month, but both countries have clarified that the wargames are not linked to the American war on Iraq , Press Trust of India (PTI) said on Saturday. "The forthcoming exercise would play a significant role in strengthening the co-operation, trust and mutual understanding between the two naval powers and heightening the level of stability in the zone of Indian Ocean," PTI quoted the Russian defence ministry as saying in Moscow. The news agency stressed that the "defence ministry specifically noted that Indo-Russian...

There are reports coming from everywhere that Saddam Hussein plans a preemptive attack on Israel, Turkey, Jordan and Kuwait and Bahrain. Much of this information is said to be coming from Israeli and US intelligence. Two reports I received today, one from Hal Lindsey and one from DEBKAFiles claim to have information that Saddam has coordinated a mega attack in Israel and has the capabilities to hit all the above with Nuclear weapons, some nuclear dirty bombs and some are nuclear war heads.Well I don't have any sensitive military information to disclose to you, but I can tell you...

NewsMax.com   Monday, June 10, 2002Cheney Warns of First Strike The U.S. won't shy away from first strikes against terrorists, Vice President Dick Cheney said today. In a speech in Washington to International Democrat Union, described by the Associated Press as "a collection of conservative and moderate-to-rightist politicians," Cheney said a strike-first military policy was necessary because old approaches to world security fail against terrorists who have no single base of operation and "nothing to defend." "Grave threats are accumulating against us, and inaction will only bring them closer," Cheney said. "We will not wait until it is too late."...

The Bush administration is developing a new strategic doctrine that moves away from the Cold War pillars of containment and deterrence toward a policy that supports preemptive attacks against terrorists and hostile states with chemical, biological or nuclear weapons.Entire article here