When your troops go to war, the prime minister or the president change…

Jimmy Carter
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When your troops go to war, the prime minister or the president change overnight from an administrator, dealing with taxation and welfare and health and deteriorating roads, into the commander-in-chief. And it's just become almost unpatriotic to describe Bush's fallacious and ill-advised and mistaken and sometimes misleading actions. ✨ Mr President for good by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2004.
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