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include that changed the whole dynamic. well, the chief of staff who got fired you re talking about general moseley he didn t like drones but his predecessor,s washington mad keen on drones. and he had actually bought lots of them. so different constituencies in the air forcement the turning point really, i would say was in 2008. when general hayden, director of the cia went to the white house, went to see bush, and he was egged on by the aircharacter who is the head of the counterterrorism center, plays a hugely important role in all this. and said to bush, you know, al qaeda is massing. they re regrouping. they re about to come at us again and scare the daylights out of bush, and got authorization to loosen the restrictions on drone targeting. and so after then, to give bush credit, there s been you had to absolutely know who you were trying to hit and be absolutely sure where he was and all the rest. hayden this is in july 2008. hayden got bush to relax that and now
she describes herself as a left-leaning, spot smoking hippie to me. so she was 18 when she enlisted. the spring of 2001. all she wanted was college tuition, and she was certain she never wanted to be a soldier but the south she would join the national guard and be a part ymca soldier just for that college tuition benefit economy was sure she would never good to war because she knew the national guard just did not deploy. she felt quite sure of that. and then of course, when she was in training, 9/11 happened, and she did understand right away that maybe the commitment she had made was going to be much bigger than what she had been envisioning. when she goes overseas in afghanistan, she becomes very close to two other women and their political beliefs are in some cases the opposite of hers. so when in the fall before michelle enlisted, back in 2000 she voted for not al gore, and not george bush, but ralph nader. and so she is pretty sure nobody else in her guard unit who was a