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Posted inPolitical Animal, Politics

Expectations

by Kevin Drum June 14, 2006January 9, 2022

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EXPECTATIONS….President Bush talks about Iraq today:

I hope there’s not an expectation from people that all of a sudden there’s going to be zero violence.

No, I don’t think there is. But then, outside of the White House, no one ever had that expectation in the first place.

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