Bush repeatedly told paul bremmer that the viceroy of era, head of the coles an provisional authority, should be someone who's willing to stand up and thank the american people for their sacrifice in liberating arak. This was a frequent theme on the right. The conservative intellectual fuata johmi wrote a book about this called the foreigner's gift. Tucker carlson,. as much as he postures aanti war figure in his current nativist incarnation, can only interpret the failure of the aroc war as a failing of the aroki people. And like, gives interviews that i quote in the book talking about how, like, these are subhumans
Episode one of The Dig's three-part War on Terror series the with Spencer Ackerman: 9/11, bipartisan war fever, and George W. Bush.
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