Bush Drops Axis of Evil Speech in 2002

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Bush drops his famous Axis of Evil speech in 2002. He puts Iran alongside Iraq and North Korea in this so-called Axis of Evil. This comes as a total shock to the reformists who aren't, they don't have a sense this is about to happen. They had been thinking that things were getting kind of closer to some kind of conversation. And it actually even surprises some senior members of the some veterans in the US State Department.

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