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West Point Commencement Address Articulates Doctrine of Preemption

At the U.S. Military Academy commencement, President Bush laid out a policy endorsing preemptive action against regimes that harbor or sponsor terrorists and possess WMD.

West Point Commencement Address Articulates Doctrine of Preemption

The speech publicly framed the Bush administration's willingness to use preventive force and helped shape the strategic rationale later used in debates over Iraq and counter‑proliferation policy.

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