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Dubious - Evil Empire as inspiration for term[edit]
Is there any first or near-first party source on this? aka an interview with George W. Bush himself or an important member of his staff. While axis has long held clear WWII connotations, "evil" is a generic term. Furthermore, there is no former soviet nation in the original trio. -- sarysa (talk) 12:51, 13 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I assert that it does not. The word "evil" is a generic term, and furthermore there are no mentions of "Axis of evil", "Iraq", "Iran", "North Korea", nor any of those countries leaders nor George W. Bush.
A sufficient source would for this would have to be from someone involved with coining the term. Otherwise, it's just a random person's assumption that has been elevated to "fact", despite being baseless. -- sarysa (talk) 13:46, 4 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
