joe scarborough pushing the cheney 1% doctrine....good gawd almighty

[spanone]

In his heralded new book, "The One Percent Doctrine," Ron Suskind writes that Vice President Dick Cheney forcefully stated that the war on terror empowered the Bush administration to act without the need for evidence or extensive analysis.

Suskind describes the Cheney doctrine as follows: "Even if there's just a 1 percent chance of the unimaginable coming due, act as if it is a certainty. It's not about 'our analysis,' as Cheney said. It's about 'our response.' … Justified or not, fact-based or not, 'our response' is what matters. As to 'evidence,' the bar was set so low that the word itself almost didn't apply."

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=2120605&page=1#.UW1HXnDtj28

[AndyA]

1. Just make sure some horrific tragedy happens first, then you can do whatever you want

in the name of terra. Bushco certainly didn't follow the 1% doctrine prior to 9/11, in fact they ignored the warnings.

Glad I'm not watching Mourning Joe, my tolerance level for him is very, very low.

[GeorgeGist]

2. Indeed. Worked so well in response to Newtown Massacre.

Oh wait. That's different.

[Baitball Blogger]

3. Maybe an indication that someone would fall for this doctrine is directly related to his

potential for racism? Because, what I see is an attempt to legitimize the rush to judgment.

No extensive analysis and a 1 percent chance of the unimaginable coming true. Christ. That's the same kind of reasoning that racists use!