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Swede Atlanta

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7. I think they saw GWB for what he was....
Fri Jul 25, 2014, 09:51 AM
Jul 2014

a weak person who could easily be manipulated. The PNAC crowd may have been actively encouraging GWB to run but at a minimum they saw this as their best opportunity.

I think for the original PNAC crowd 2000 was really the election they needed to win. Those individuals were starting to get "long in the teeth". If they didn't win in 2000 and get things going within a few years many of them would likely be too old to forcefully participate.

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