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“I sometimes think that we underestimate Trump, but that's just my opinion. I always like to tack the other way, I guess.”

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I can't fudge what I write. But I can certainly fudge what I say.

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If Bush had gone into Iraq for cynical reasons, we could cut our losses now. What's frightening is that he did it for ideological…

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At a meeting in her office in the late summer of 2002, months before the war in Iraq, prisoner abuse at Guantanamo is discussed. Condoleezza Rice brings in Donald Rumsfeld for a meeting, and they all agree they have to do something. Nothing gets done. Did everybody understand we were going to be as tough as we could be people…

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Using words to make other people less big made me feel bigger, though the psychological dimension to that... well, I don't want to explore…

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I didn't know I was gonna be a writer when I started out.

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We'd be better off if the whole purpose of the adventure in Iraq was, say, to protect Israel or to protect the flow of oil to America and keep it at a reasonable price and try to get some more control. If it was about oil, going into Iraq, I guess, could have made sense. But at a certain point,…

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The idea of photographing an Arab man naked and having him simulate homosexual activity, and having an American GI woman in the photographs, is…

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There's been a lot of talk about how bad the reporting was, particularly with the George W. Bush Administration after 9/11. The general assumption,…

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Grab whom you must. Do what you want.

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If George W. Bush had gone into Iraq for cynical reasons, we could cut our losses now. What's frightening is that he did it for ideological reasons, and therefore he's not going to get out. So it isn't ultimately about oil or about Israel, it's about a belief. I don't know whether God talks to him or whether he's trying…

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