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Radio War Nerd EP 372 — Iraq War 20th Anniversary, pt. 3: The Forever Warmongers

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The Importance of Sensitivity

Maureen Dowd wrote a New York Times column in 2003 after Bush landed on an aircraft carrier. She said that the cocky rule-breaking Daredevil Flyboy just reminds me of a Simpsons episode where Lisa is sort of crushing on the sullen adolescent who works at the library part-time and she says, if only someone could tame him. When you talk like that, it recalls Vietnam, right? Yeah. But nobody was much worried about that because I think they were kind of crazy in love. They were all of this was, and I'm not one of these Freudian, you know, people,. All of this was really sexualized in a weird way.

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