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My kids are 8 and 10. They were 3 and 5 when the Iraq war started. They don't remember 9/11. They won't remember a time when we weren't at war.

I'd hoped to give them a better view of American political life than the one I had--my first political memory was watching Nixon resign on TV, and watching my parents' anger that I didn't understand. Unfortunately, my kids haven't had a much better ride. Bush is the only president they've ever known.

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