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Objective advice is not welcome. In the Histories, Polycrates is warned
by his daughter, but he forces her to keep silent (3,124), sticks to his
chosen option, and gets killed (3,125).
Woodward describes Rumsfeld’s feelings which led him to
support the war on Iraq. Rumsfeld felt that Bush’s father “had screwed
up in the Gulf-war “by not taking out Saddam” (77). Rumsfeld was
humiliated after 9/11 because the CIA carried out the attack on
Afghanistan. Thus Rumsfeld focused on Iraq. “Rumsfeld made it his
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