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1. The TV show West Wing refuted the Bush Admin. delusions.

Reply to Jilly_in_VA (Original post)

Sat Aug 21, 2021, 03:29 PM

Aug 2021

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I remember one West Wing episode about policy decisions after a fictitious attack by a fictitious mideast terrorist group. Somebody suggests large-scale invasions of several mideast countries, but the West Wing President points out how counterproductive and potentially tragic that would be, especially in the case of countries that did not send any of the attackers.

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