Question: Did Bush ever say

[Cat Atomic]

say that the US would allow no potential rival to emerge, as part of the Bush Doctrine? I could swear I heard him say something along those lines, but I can't find any reference to it.

[papau]

1. That is a PNAC position - therefore a Bush position

:-)

[Cat Atomic]

2. Definitley.

But I could swear I heard him say something in an address shortly after Sept. 11- it could've been November 2001 or so. It was something to the effect of "maintaining dominance"... or maybe "supremacy"... something like that.

Argh. Maybe I'm mixing up something I read with something I heard.

[MinnFats]

3. no, i think you're right. bush said something to the effect...

....
....there's only room in this world for one superpower.
.....that's in its essence what he said.

.....but i can't for the life of me recall where i saw it..

[Fleshdancer]

4. I haven't found that one yet, but here are some interesting quotes:

"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier...just as long as I'm the dictator..."
--Washington, DC, Dec 18, 2000, during his first trip to Washington as President-Elect

I was proud the other day when both Republicans and Democrats stood with me in the Rose Garden to announce their support for a clear statement of purpose: You disarm, or we will.
-- Manchester, New Hampshire, Oct. 5, 2002

This is a man who continues to murder his own people, a man who has gassed -- used gas on his own citizens, a man who has used chemical weapons on his neighbors, a man who has invaded two countries, a man which hates -- who hates America, a man who loves to link up with al Qaeda, a man who is a true threat to America, to Israel, to anybody in the neighborhood.
-- Phoenix, Arizona, Sep. 28, 2002

I want to send the signal to our enemy that you have aroused a compassionate and decent and mighty nation, and we're going to hunt you down.
-- Louisville, Kentucky, Sep. 5, 2002

There's a lot of war talk these days, as there should be, but it's all aimed at making sure the world is peaceful.
-- Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, July 18, 2002

My most important job is to defend the homeland, to protect innocent Americans from the deaths of the killers.
-- Washington, D.C., June 19, 2002

I'm trying to absorb that knowledge. I have nobody to talk to. I'm sitting in the midst of a classroom with little kids, listening to a children's story... and I realize I'm the commander in chief and the country has just come under attack.
-- in interview with Newsweek, Nov. 2001

I was on Air Force One the day of the attack, working my way back to Washington via Louisiana and Nebraska -- making sure that the President was safe and secure.
-- Crawford High School, Crawford, Texas, Nov. 15, 2001

We need to counter the shock wave of the evildoer by having individual rate cuts accelerated and by thinking about tax rebates.
-- Labor Department, Oct. 4, 2001

When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive.
-- in meeting with Senators Hillary Clinton and Charles Schumer, Sept. 24, 2001

I believe the role of the military is to fight and win war and therefore prevent war from happening in the first place.
-- First Presidential Debate, Boston, Massachusetts, Oct. 3, 2000

Should I be fortunate enough to earn your confidence, the mission of the United States military will be to be prepared and ready to fight and win war. And therefore prevent war from happening in the first place.
-- Third Presidential Debate, St. Louis, Missouri, Oct. 17, 2000

Well, first of all, the goal of the terrorists -- whether they be Baathists, or mujahideen fighters, or al Qaeda-type fighters -- is to create terror and fear amongst average Iraqis -- is to create the conditions where people are just so fearful for their lives that they cannot think positively about freedom.
-- Washington, D.C., Nov. 13, 2003

No, the attacks of September the 11th, and the march to war leading up to the Iraqi excursion, affected the psychology of the country. We had a recession, and we had the attacks, the national emergency, plus the march to war. But we're a strong country. We're a resilient country because the entrepreneurial spirit is strong and things seem to be okay.
-- Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Oct. 3, 2003

[Fleshdancer]

5. and another....

I have spoken to the vice president, to the governor of New York, to the director of the FBI, and I've ordered that the full resources of the federal government go to help the victims and their families and to conduct a full-scale investigation to hunt down and to find those folks who committed this act.
-- Sarasota, Florida, Sept. 11, 2001

(I'm still searching for the one relevent to the original thread, but it's hard not posting all the others)

[Cat Atomic]

7. Hmm...

Thanks Gloria. :) I've been looking all over as well, without any luck at all.

[Minstrel Boy]

6. It's an aspect of the National Security Strategy,

adopted as official US doctrine in the summer of 2002. Potential rivals include economic rivals.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/nss.pdf