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Forcing that fait accompli is the only possible solution.
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The Bush administration, of course, revealed themselves as master storytellers — setting up heroes and villians and themes and making this war a fait accompli from the moment the buildings began to crumble on 9/11.
Fiction is Stranger Than Truth: Over There and the Narratives of Iraq | PopPolitics.com 2005
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The Bush administration, of course, revealed themselves as master storytellers — setting up heroes and villians and themes and making this war a fait accompli from the moment the buildings began to crumble on 9/11.
Fiction is Stranger Than Truth: Over There and the Narratives of Iraq | PopPolitics.com 2005
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The Bush administration, of course, revealed themselves as master storytellers — setting up heroes and villians and themes and making this war a fait accompli from the moment the buildings began to crumble on 9/11.
Print - Fiction is Stranger Than Truth: Over There and the Narratives of Iraq | PopPolitics.com 2005
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That implementation of course will be a fait accompli, which is my biggest concern.
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Party members will not allow Rhodri and co to present a fait accompli which is exactly what happened last time.
A coalition too far 2007
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Because I guarantee you, weasels like nothing better than the law of fait accompli.
Saltzman looking for easy way out on Paulson stadiums? (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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ANything in anyone'e plan that addresses hwo to keep pricing down on medical care or is that going to be a perpetual fait accompli?
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Thanks to Mr. Boehner, we'll at least have a democratic debate on this subject instead of a backroom fait accompli.
Who's the Extremist Now? William McGurn 2011
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You got it! approach to the 'prisoner transfer' and just laid the blame at Gordon Brown's feet, basically claiming it was all a fait accompli.
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