Florida man cites ‘Bush doctrine’ after pre-emptive killing of neighbors
at Labor Day cookout
By David Edwards

Lawyers for a Florida man this week cited President George W. Bush’s
pre-emptive war in Iraq and the “Bush Doctrine” as a defense after their
client killed two neighbors and attempted to kill a third on Labor Day.

Florida Today reported on Wednesday that attorney’s for William T.
Woodward had filed a motion asking for charges against him to be
dismissed under Florida’s Stand Your Ground law, which says that gun
owners do not have a duty to retreat in the face of an “imminent” threat.

According to officials in Titusville, Woodward had snuck up on his
neighbors while they were having a Labor Day barbecue. Police responding
to the scene found that Gary Lee Hembree, Roger Picior and Bruce Timothy
had all been shot.

Hembree and Picior were later pronounced dead. Blake survived, even
though he had been hit 11 times.

In their motion, Woodward’s attorneys claimed that the victims had
called him names and threatened to “get him.”

The motion referenced Enoch V. State, which suggests that an “imminent”
threat can include something that is likely to occur at sometime in the
future.

“I think legally that term has sort of been evolving especially given
changes of our government’s definition of ‘imminent,’” attorney Robert
Berry, who is representing Woodward, told Florida Today. “It’s become
more expansive than someone putting a gun right to your head. It’s
things that could become, you know, an immediate threat.”

The court document filed by the defense also cited “The Bush Doctrine,”
a foreign policy principle used by President George W. Bush to justify
the invasion of Iraq. “The Bush Doctrine” embraces “preventive” or
pre-emptive war.

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The guy must be a relative of one of our two Psycho Scotties…

Preventive war in Florida obviously is related to "stand your ground."