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"'This is a war against terrorism, and Iraq is just one campaign. The Bush Administration is looking at this as a huge war zone,' the former high-level intelligence official told me. 'Next, we're going to have the Iranian campaign. We've declared war and the bad guys, wherever they are, are the enemy. This is the last hurrah - we've got four years, and want to come out of this saying we won the war on terrorism.'" - Seymour Hersh in The New Yorker on The Coming Wars.

And you thought the "Perpetual" in "Perpetual War on Terrorism" had been overheated 9/11 rhetorics just because the very concept of perpetual war was dismissed decades ago in some parts of the world.

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