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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/magazine/17BUSH.html?ex=1265346000&% 
2338;en=67e5e499d9ce0514&%2338;ei=5088

In the summer of 2002, after I had written an article in Esquire that  
the White House didn't like about Bush's former communications  
director, Karen Hughes, I had a meeting with a senior adviser to  
Bush. He expressed the White House's displeasure, and then he told me  
something that at the time I didn't fully comprehend -- but which I  
now believe gets to the very heart of the Bush presidency.

The aide said that guys like me were ''in what we call the reality- 
based community,'' which he defined as people who ''believe that  
solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.''  
I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and  
empiricism. He cut me off. ''That's not the way the world really  
works anymore,'' he continued. ''We're an empire now, and when we  
act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that  
reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating  
other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things  
will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will  
be left to just study what we do.'' 

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