Charles Gibson on Sarah Palin
"Nightline" 11:30pm
Interview
TRANSCRIPT:
SARAH PALIN: [] When he said, first he suggested, never presume to know what Gods will is, and I would never presume to know Gods will or to speak gods words, but what Abraham Lincoln had said, and thats a repeat in my comments, was, let us not pray that God is on our side, in a war, or any other time. But let us pray that we are on Gods side. Thats what that comment was all about, Charlie. And I do believe though that this war against extreme Islamic terrorists is the right thing. Its an unfortunate thing because war is Hell, and I hate war. And Charlie, today is the day that I send my first-born, my son, my teenage son, oversees with his Stryker brigade. Four thousand other wonderful American men and women to fight for our country, to fight for our freedoms.
PALIN: I believe that there is a plan for this world, and that plan, for this world, is for good. I believe that there is great hope and great potential for every country, to be able to live and be protected within inalienable rights, that I believe are God-given, Charlie. And I believe those are the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That in my worldview is the grand plan.
PALIN: I dont know if the task is from God, Charlie. What I know is that my son has made a decision. I am so proud of his independent and strong decision. What he decided to do, in serving for the right reasons in serving something greater than self.
PALIN: I believe that under the leadership of Ahmadinejad, nuclear weapons in the hands of his government are extremely dangerous to everyone on this globe, yes. We can not just concede that, oh gee, maybe theyre going to have nuclear weapons, what can we do about it? No way. Not Americans. We do not have to stand for that.
PALIN: Well, first, we are friends of Israel, and I dont think that we should second guess the measures that Israel has to take to defend themselves, and for their security.
GIBSON: Do you agree with the Bush doctrine?
PALIN: In what respect, Charlie?
GIBSON: The Bush — well, what do you interpret it to be?
PALIN: His worldview?
GIBSON: No, the Bush doctrine, annunciated September 2002, before the Iraq War.
PALIN: I believe that what President Bush has attempted to do is rid this world of Islamic extremism, terrorists who are hell-bent on destroying our nation. There have been blunders along the way, though. There have been mistakes made, and with new leadership, and thats the beauty of American elections, of course, and democracy, is with new leadership comes opportunity to do things better.
GIBSON: The Bush doctrine as I understand it is that we have the right of anticipatory self-defense, that we have the right to a preemptive strike against any other country that we think is going to attack us. Do you agree with that?
PALIN: I agree that a presidents job, when they swear in their oath to uphold our Constitution, their top priority is to defend the United States of America.
PALIN: Charlie, if there is legitimate and enough intelligent and legitimate evidence that tells us that a strike is imminent against American people, we have every right to defend our country. In fact, the President has the obligation, the duty, to defend. And thats what a McCain-Palin administration would do.
PALIN: Were going to work with these countries, building new relationships, working with existing allies, but forging new also, in order to, Charlie, get to a point in this world, where war is not going to be a first option. In fact, war has got to be and military strike a last option.
PALIN: This brings us right back to how important it is to win in Afghanistan, to make sure that the terrorist groups are not growing there. We cant afford to lose in Iraq, and we cant afford to lose in Afghanistan. And were going to have to implement in Afghanistan a lot of the same successes, a lot of that surge solution that has been implemented and proven, proven to be successful in Iraq.
PALIN: We do need more troops in Afghanistan. We do.
PALIN: In order to stop Islamic extremists, those terrorists who would seek to destroy America, and our allies, we must do whatever it takes, and we must not blink, Charlie. In making those tough decisions of where we go, and even who we target. And let me get back to whats going on there in Pakistan right now. A target needs to be Osama Bin Laden. We cannot give up our fight to find him, and John McCain is committed to find him.
PALIN: I believe that America has to exercise all options in order to stop the terrorists who are hell-bent on destroying America, and our allies. We have got to have all options out there on the table.
LABEL: CG SP ABC 09-11-08 23.30 (RAD#235) VCAB
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