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Iraq is an Imperial Project

Read this and tell me it’s not true:

"He's learning to be a leader," Bush said a few weeks later. "And one of my jobs as the president and his ally is to help him be that leader without being patronizing. At some point in time, if I come to the conclusion that he can't be the leader—he's unwilling to lead or he's deceptive—then we'll change course. But I haven't come to that conclusion. As a matter of fact, his recent actions have inspired me."

This is the way you talk about a ten-year-old child.

Christopher Hayes is the Washington, D.C. Editor of The Nation.

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