In the past, Hitler killed jews with the reason of them being a threat for the german society.
Then they had the bright thought of french neightbours being a threat.. not to talk about the russians.
...and they lost it.
Obviously this so called pre-emptive strikes hasn't been too succesful, especially when it's been as far as to taking over foreign nations.
So like some bright minded person said, it wouldn't be only the right of americans to do pre-emptive strikes - but also north koreans, chinese, russians et cetera et cetera would have the same right.
Perhaps even the terrorists would have the right, after all, they don't refer to themselves as terrorists, but as some kind of soldiers instead... fightning for allah or whatever.
Then again, I must ask from Gadfly where is his actual facts?
Those links doesn't give any indication of actual facts to justify things hes after.
Just as well someone could find facts of same level from the opposition of pre-emptive attacks.
So this is actually a 50-50 situation, what comes to the facts given here - both "sides" can have just as good facts and not prove a thing over the other.
Which actually makes this statement "your narrow minds are already filled to the brim with your own brand of political straw" quite amusing... what can be said of Mr. Gadfly himself?