Cary: The Bush team very quickly very accurately reads carry's a fundamental political weakness, and recognizes that you can just like wrap a narrative of inconstancy around this guy. Cary: What this really is is an 87 billion dollar transference of public wealth to the defense. Rockes aren't benefiting from that shit. And ultimately, he gives this tortured line that bush, you know, puts on on t vas that says, we'l actually voted for the 87 billion dollars before voted against it yet.
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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