Kavanaugh recalls 9/11 chaos, defends Bush’s war on terror

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Justice Brett Kavanaugh joined a Notre Dame panel marking the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, recounting his experience as White House counsel that day, including fleeing down Connecticut Avenue as the towers fell.

Kavanaugh used the occasion to defend President George W. Bush's decisions to invade Afghanistan and Iraq, while urging students to focus on unity and shared values rather than the divisiveness of the war on terror's legacy.

He described watching Bush throw the ceremonial first pitch at Yankee Stadium and called the former president 'a role model,' saying Bush had succeeded in preventing another attack during his term.

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A Supreme Court justice gets to pick which parts of history he wants remembered fondly, and it is no shock he picked the boss who gave him his start. Calling Iraq and Afghanistan a lesson in unity skips over a fair amount of what actually happened in between. Memory is a funny thing when the person doing the remembering also signs the opinions.

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