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President Bush is about to restate his Terror Strategy. In an overdue document mandated by law, Our warmonger-in-chief will assert his idiocy of strategy and his ignorance of diplomacy by making pre-emptive strikes a central tenet of US strategic priorities.

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. In a nod to critics in Europe, the document places a greater emphasis on working with allies and declares diplomacy to be “our strong preference” in tackling the threat of weapons of mass destruction.

“If necessary, however, under long-standing principles of self defense, we do not rule out use of force before attacks occur, even if uncertainty remains as to the time and place of the enemy’s attack,” the document continues. “When the consequences of an attack with WMD are potentially so devastating, we cannot afford to stand idly by as grave dangers materialize.”

The damn fool wants to take over the world, forcing the changes he deems necessary. Is there a better example of megalomaniac intentions? By fighting phantom WMDs he turns our entire military loose on the innocent of the world. In effect America becomes the world’s largest Weapon of Mass Destruction imaginable.

Some security specialists criticized the continued commitment to preemption. “Preemption is and always will be a potentially useful tool, but it’s not something you want to trot out and throw in everybody’s face,” said Harlan Ullman, a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “To have a strategy on preemption and make it central is a huge error.”

Some experts disagree, but that won’t matter: our Fool on the Hill is “Resoloot.” that means he’s stubborn, arrogant and stupid. All at once. But he’s not alone, there are more fools backing him up: From Thomas Donnelly, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute who has written on the 2002 strategy:

“We have to understand preemption — it’s not going to be simply a preemptive strike,” he said. “That’s not the end of the exercise but the beginning of the exercise.”

The document, released today to three newspapers, has the gall to list our next targets:

Without saying what action would be taken against them, the strategy singles out seven nations as prime examples of “despotic systems” — North Korea, Iran, Syria, Cuba, Belarus, Burma and Zimbabwe. Iran and North Korea receive particular attention because of their nuclear programs, and the strategy vows in both cases “to take all necessary measures” to protect the United States against them.

“We may face no greater challenge from a single country than from Iran,” the document says, echoing a statement made by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice last week. It recommits to efforts with European allies to pressure Tehran to give up any aspirations of nuclear weapons, then adds ominously: “This diplomatic effort must succeed if confrontation is to be avoided.”

These people have to be stopped before the whole globe erupts in conflict. I can almost envision the posters from the Minister of Propaganda: Smiling white folks waving out of their luxury SUV, tooling down a sunlit road somewhere in the American southwest. Plenty of oil for every American. All we have to do is subjugate the rest of the world - piece of cake!

Step right up, folks! World War Three coming soon to a theatre near you. Brought to you by the United States. God Bless America!