This document is worth your time, despite the way it glosses over reality in an attempt at clarity.
The White House is releasing its National Security Strategy, a report that reaffirms the strike-first policy that President Bush first laid out in 2002. The release comes "in conjunction with a speech that Bush's national security adviser, Stephen Hadley, is delivering at the U.S. Institute of Peace," the Associated Press reports, but you can read the report now.
You can download the full document from our site in PDF (note the large file size -- 632 KB), or read it in chunks on White House web pages.
Inside the report, the president's introduction is blunt: "America is at war. This is a wartime national security strategy required by the grave challenge we face -- the rise of terrorism fueled by an aggressive ideology of hatred and murder, fully revealed to the American people on September 11, 2001. This strategy reflects our most solemn obligation: to protect the security of the American people."
