Averting our gaze from U.S. cruelty


	Averting our gaze from U.S. cruelty

zasel

7-1-2008 3:35 PM

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zasel says:

This article examines the depravity with which the Bush adminsitration has conducted itself since 9/11. It asks some very important questions. But the biggest question to me is why the hell is Bush and his henchmen not being tried for war crimes?

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