Michael McFaul

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Michael McFaul @McFaul

I just skimmed Powell's speech to the UN. There is not one word about democracy promotion. See Condi's book, Democracy. Even in a book about democracy promotion, she argues that we didn't invade to promote democracy. — PolitiTweet.org

This is wrong. Of course, George W. Bush and other regime change salespeople mentioned democracy promotion as an im… https://t.co/F0LPNp9Mrw

Posted Nov. 16, 2020 Hibernated

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Michael McFaul @McFaul

On this we can agree. There was a very wide disparate ideological coalition within the Bush administration supporting war -- some were realists; others neocons. Cheney was no liberal internationalist ! Nor was Rumsfeld. Wolfowitz was. How would you code Feith? — PolitiTweet.org

@McFaul The liberal and security arguments were not totally unrelated. Liberals said counterterrorism depends on to… https://t.co/7VPsqTv9hX

Posted Nov. 16, 2020 Hibernated

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Rice "We didn't go to Iraq to bring democracy to Iraq, we went to Iraq to overthrow Saddam Hussein, who we thought was reconstituting his weapons of mass destruction and who we knew had been a threat in the region. It was a security problem," https://t.co/4VhMzMF8Iu — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 16, 2020 Hibernated