9/17/2002

“[T]he [Bush] administration’s provocative September [17] 2002 The National Security Strategy of the United States of America...embraced regime change in rogue states, aggressively promoted democracy, viewed American military supremacy as a given, and, in a stunning departure from traditional U.S. foreign policy norms, asserted the right to launch preemptive wars to protect national interests.”

 – Jeffrey Record, Wanting War, Page 31