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	Rumsfeld 'kept up fear of terror attacks'

Newfman

11-2-2007 9:32 PM

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11-3-2007 7:28 AM

pokkets

Warmongering spam

11-3-2007 10:06 AM

sahara

Yeah, well, they had to sell the war somehow, most people just were not buying their sorry excuses, not even really "under-educated" (just throwing in a little pc there, lol) people. They had to hype their agenda, and sell, sell, sell. It's still happening too! Just a short time ago I saw this guy on what was supposed to be a news channel plugging a story on how the scary muslims are going to start throwing kids out the windows of school buses! It was a week long series he said!

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