Bush's Justification of Bombing Iran

You're not going to believe this(WaPo page A01)....

President Bush plans to issue a new national security strategy today reaffirming his doctrine of preemptive war against terrorists and hostile states with chemical, biological or nuclear weapons, despite the troubled experience in Iraq.....

The preemption doctrine generated fierce debate at the time, and many critics believe the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has fatally undermined an essential assumption of the strategy -- that intelligence about an enemy's capabilities and intentions can be sufficiently reliable to justify preventive war.

In his revised version, Bush offers no second thoughts about the preemption policy, saying it "remains the same" and defending it as necessary for a country in the "early years of a long struggle" akin to the Cold War....

This is classic Bush administration. Find a policy that hasn't worked and stand by it, refusing to alter it while it's not working. Oh, and you have to promote the bozo who proposed the bad policy in the first place.

Stephen Hadley is giving a speech tomorrow to kick this thing off.