Heart of Stone

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Even Republican dirty-tricks operator Roger J. Stone, Jr. now says he regrets helping elect George W. Bush president in 2000. Stone, who led the "Brooks Brothers riot" that disrupted the 2000 election recount in Florida, now says he is troubled by the Bush administration's trampling of civil liberties and the war in Iraq. "When I look at those double-page New York Times spreads of all the individual pictures of people who have been killed [in Iraq], I got to think, 'Maybe there wouldn't have been a war if I hadn't gone to Miami-Dade,'" Stone told Benjamin Sarlin. Despite these regrets, Sarlin notes that "Stone still offers his services as a no-holds-barred strategist to domestic and foreign politicians alike, and claims his client list is full."