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In. what we decided to do is give ourselves a giant trillion dollar tax cut. and right after we started a second simultaneous giant land war in iraq, we gave ourselves another round of tax cuts. that is a symptom of something wrong. that is a symptom of a country that doesnt feel it, that were at war. we feel like the military goes to war. the country doesnt go to war. when the iraq war ended, more than 4,000 lives lost, st. louis threw a parade, new york decided not to. the over all feeling amo...

Romney had a big victory in illinois on tuesday. im not one of those that thinks you should say to people, youve got to get out. these guys have made huge sacrifices. theyve run hard. they have a lot of people supporting them. this will wind down. it has a natural pace that its going to wind down. and unless something unusual happens, unless romney steps on a land mine, it looks like hes going to be the nominee. >> all right. im going to leave it there. thank you all very much. we covered a lot ...

The ground wars in decade following 9/11, the fighting them simultaneously, less than 1% of the adult u.s. population has been called upon to strap on those boots. not since the peace time years between world war i and ii has a smaller share of americans served in the armed forces. half 6 the american public says its not been marginally affected by ten years of constant war. eve never in our long history been further from the ideal of that america would find it impossible to go to war without di...

Polls. first time hes hit that. santorum at 26%. governor barbour, is it time for this race to end, for the party to fall in behind romney? >> thats for the primary voters to decide primarily. they voted for santorum in illinois yesterday. romney had a big victory in illinois on tuesday. im not one of those that thinks you should say to people, youve got to get out. these guys have made huge sacrifices. theyve run hard. they have a lot of people supporting them. this will wind down. it has a nat...

Screen. while america has been fighting two of its longest ever boots on the ground wars in decade following 9/11, the fighting them simultaneously, less than 1% of the adult u.s. population has been called upon to strap on those boots. not since the peace time years between world war i and ii has a smaller share of americans served in the armed forces. half 6 the american public says its not been marginally affected by ten years of constant war. eve never in our long history been further from t...

Top of my list for your first book. >> when i got the contract to write this book i had a radio show and i since have a tv show. i goodette to talk about whatever i want. i wanted to write a book because i felt like i couldnt talk about this in the other things that i did for a living. i feel this is a longer idea. this is not a sound bite thing. this is not a between the commercials idea. i felt i needed to lay it out long form. its been bothering me for a very long time, this idea that weve ma...

Ourselves a giant trillion dollar tax cut. and right after we started a second simultaneous giant land war in iraq, we gave ourselves another round of tax cuts. that is a symptom of something wrong. that is a symptom of a country that doesnt feel it, that were at war. we feel like the military goes to war. the country doesnt go to war. when the iraq war ended, more than 4,000 lives lost, st. louis threw a parade, new york decided not to. the over all feeling among the american population was, oh...

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If the public doesnt feel it, we use war more. i think thats sort of the implicit case we found ourselves in. what we decided to do is give ourselves a giant multi trillion dollar tax cut just before 9/11 and the afghanistan war. that was not rescinded once we started the afghanistan war. and right after we started a second simultaneous giant land war in iraq, we gave ourselves another round of tax cuts. that is a symptom of something wrong. that is a symptom of a country that doesnt feel it, th...

And can you dismantle what you call this military super structure? i have to ask you, of all the topics that i thought that rachel maddow would take on, this was not the one i put on top of my list for your first book. >> when i got the contract to write this book i had a radio show and i since have a tv show. i get to talk about whatever i want. i wanted to write a book because i felt like i couldnt talk about this in the other things that i did for a living. i feel this is a longer idea. this ...