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I’m certainly not going to argue that Bush handled almost anything about Afghanistan or Iraq particularly well. He was surrounded by people who wanted to find any excuse they could to go after Saddam and saw Afghanistan as something between a distraction and a pretext. That said, 9/11 was nonetheless an act of war that demanded a response. A better response than we gave… but a response, nonetheless.

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