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	Playing Politics With War

Zenuu

4-8-2007 5:17 AM

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4-8-2007 6:09 AM

schreibe

That clip just about sums up this administration. Need to read the entire article to get the full impact of what has been done in the pursuit of power and the shame of using war as a political pawn. Somebody needs to answer for all this.....most likely, it will be 20 years down the road.

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