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Axis of Evil

United States · Government / Republican Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

2002

George Walker Bush29 January 2002

Government / Republican Party Government

President George Bush, in his State of the Union address, describes Iran, Iraq and North Korea as an "axis of evil"

Names involved

George Walker Bush

Provenance

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