Politics: A new beginning

[The Larry Davis Experience]

Originally posted by Hello
I was hoping nobody would ask this one.

Geez, I'm nice enough to talk to ya, and I get accused of softballery. I feel so used.

For a presidential candidate, supporting a "theoretical" war in the face of "imminent danger" is the intellectual equivalent of supporting a chicken in every pot.

Many quotes, when taken out of context, are meaningless.

"I would not hesitate to act preemptively if the U.S. was in imminent danger," Clark said. But he added that Bush's policy is more one of "preventive war," which Clark condemned as a strategy of hitting nations that do not pose an imminent threat.

Iraq fits this category, he said.

I disagree with you that it is meaningless to point out that while an imminent threat would justify preemptive action (which is itself a break from our historical viewpoint, I might add), the Iraq war was something else entirely. You probably would take some issue with that assessment, but it is far less of a truism than you make it out to be.