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i saw the best daily show.
(these aren't the exact words, because I can't find the transcript)
(my comments are in parenthesis)
john stewart: Okay, but is it safe to say that when Bush came into office, he adopted a sort of "doctrine"--The Bush Doctrine?
stephen f. hayes, author of The Connection (describes the link between osama and iraq): Yes, I guess so.
john stewart: Now, don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of doctrines. (laughing) I mean, that Monroe Doctrine...
Anyway. The Bush Doctrine is based on preemption, correct? And...I don't know, I'll give you four things on which it's based:
1. Suspicion of possessing some sort of weapons of mass destruction or using weapons of mass destruction in the past.
2. harboring or supporting terrorism or terrorist groups
3. (I forgot what the third one was...I think it was a corrupt government or something)
4. Oppression of the citizens of the country
Stewart: Am I correct?
Hayes: Yes.
Stewart: The problem is you can't tell me of which country am I speaking. I could be speaking of Saudi Arabia, North Korea, Iran, Sudan (I'm not so sure about the Sudan one--I'll have to look it up), or Iraq. (applause) So why did we go to war?
(Stewart questions Hayes on S.A. and Iran, and Hayes responds that they all match the "stipulations")
Hayes: Iran? No, Iraq has the weapons.
Stewart: During the Iran-Iraq war they were BOTH firing mustard gas at each other!
Hayes: Well, you make a good point, but, let's say...we had the documents that could help use--you can see those in my book. And, if we had had a similar "9/11" type situation later on, the same people who comment about the war would have cried "foul!" because we had all this evidence.
(Stewart says something about it being hypothetical and something else which I don't remember)
Stewart: Well, we have 15 Saudis who crashed into the WTC and I don't see the government doing anything about that.
(applause)
(these aren't the exact words, because I can't find the transcript)
(my comments are in parenthesis)
john stewart: Okay, but is it safe to say that when Bush came into office, he adopted a sort of "doctrine"--The Bush Doctrine?
stephen f. hayes, author of The Connection (describes the link between osama and iraq): Yes, I guess so.
john stewart: Now, don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of doctrines. (laughing) I mean, that Monroe Doctrine...
Anyway. The Bush Doctrine is based on preemption, correct? And...I don't know, I'll give you four things on which it's based:
1. Suspicion of possessing some sort of weapons of mass destruction or using weapons of mass destruction in the past.
2. harboring or supporting terrorism or terrorist groups
3. (I forgot what the third one was...I think it was a corrupt government or something)
4. Oppression of the citizens of the country
Stewart: Am I correct?
Hayes: Yes.
Stewart: The problem is you can't tell me of which country am I speaking. I could be speaking of Saudi Arabia, North Korea, Iran, Sudan (I'm not so sure about the Sudan one--I'll have to look it up), or Iraq. (applause) So why did we go to war?
(Stewart questions Hayes on S.A. and Iran, and Hayes responds that they all match the "stipulations")
Hayes: Iran? No, Iraq has the weapons.
Stewart: During the Iran-Iraq war they were BOTH firing mustard gas at each other!
Hayes: Well, you make a good point, but, let's say...we had the documents that could help use--you can see those in my book. And, if we had had a similar "9/11" type situation later on, the same people who comment about the war would have cried "foul!" because we had all this evidence.
(Stewart says something about it being hypothetical and something else which I don't remember)
Stewart: Well, we have 15 Saudis who crashed into the WTC and I don't see the government doing anything about that.
(applause)