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Prologue: "Breaking china" | |
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"One of you could be president" | |
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"To be where the action is" | |
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"The fire horse and the bell" | |
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"We wrapped Bill Clinton around his neck" | |
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"I'm going to call Dick" | |
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"Iron filings moving across a tabletop" | |
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"Somebody's going to pay" | |
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"Whatever it takes" | |
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"The first battle of the war" | |
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"We're going to lose our prey" | |
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"Afghanistan was too easy" | |
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"A brutal, ugly, repugnant man" | |
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"You could hear the lunge of history turn" | |
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"Maybe we'll get lucky" | |
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"Mr. President, I think we've got a problem" | |
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"Welcome to Free Iraq" | |
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"We were almost all wrong" | |
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"When are we going to fire somebody?" | |
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"The election that will never end" | |
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"Not a speech Dick Cheney would give" | |
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"Who do they think they are? I was reelected too" | |
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"Whacked upside the head" | |
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"This is the end of the presidency" | |
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"You could have heard a pin drop" | |
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"Please do not let anything happen today" | |
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"I'm not sure how to take good news anymore" | |
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"Make damn sure we do not fail" | |
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"Don't let this be your legacy" | |
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"The elephants finally threw up on the table" | |
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"Everybody knew this was the last bullet in the chamber" | |
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"I'm going to fire all your asses" | |
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"Revolt of the radical pragmatists" | |
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"Don't screw with the president of the United States" | |
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"What is tins, a cruel hoax?" | |
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"Our people are going to hate us for this" | |
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"I didn't want to be the president during a depression" | |
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"Such a sense of betrayal" | |
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Epilogue: "There is no middle ground" | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Notes | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |
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Illustration Credits | |