Clark explains: preemption vs preemption:

[robbedvoter]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3983123/
But Clark, the West Point debate team captain, insists on responding to those attacks by teaching something of a college short-course on the difference between "pre -emptive" and "preventative" war. On the campaign bus, he tried it again and landed on a slightly better definition of why Bush's war was a preventative war and why it was dangerous. He urged common sense by evoking the Vietnam-era talk of destroying a village in order to save it. "The whole idea that we should have a war now so we don't have to fight one later has always struck a lot of people as really bad," he said. "It's a case of logic overriding common sense." That was part of a sound-bite answer that voters could digest and his opponents would find more difficult to demagogue

[Dookus]

1. are you sure your title is right? n/t

[democratreformed]

2. I am wondering that too n/t

[NV1962]

3. Good to highlight this

But make one "preemption" "prevention" instead.

[KittyWampus]

4. Fix The Title

I had a hell of a fight over this topic in the Politics forum months ago.