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The Bush Administration's Foreign Policy Failures
Two feuding factions within the bush administration had little contact with each other. War hawks neocons like chane, that is, products of lockheed martin, supported by the pentagon, did not want to do nation building. Bush agreed with the former at the start of the war, but once sadam was removed, sided with the latter. There wasn't a single meeting to discuss disbanding the iraki army. That left four red thousand jobless, formless soldiers prime for insurgency. Trillions of dollars and thousands of lives plunged irac into two decades of intermittent civil war. A candidate for the worst american foreign policy failure in history, but a success for the careers
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