"It's just like a very obvious, unignorable disaster. No matter how much the political establishment is trying to pretend that, ike, this is just a flesh wound," he says. "I lost an internal ally hours long debate at in all hands, the answer was not really."
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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