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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 couldn't 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. it's been bothering me for a very long time, this idea that we've made a series of changes over time, over the course of my lifetime, i think, that in all cases have...

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 doesn't feel it, that we're at war. we feel like the military goes to war. the country doesn't 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, was that still going on? we ought to be a country that goes to war. >> we talked about this off...

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If the public doesn't feel it, we use war more. i think that's 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 that was not rescinded once we started the afghanistan war.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 doesn't feel it, that we're at war. we feel like the military goes to war. the country doesn't go to war. when the i...

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 couldn't 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 ou...