McCain "Death of Iraqis due to war? In the Hundreds of Thousands"


	McCain "Death of Iraqis due to war? In the Hundreds of Thousands"

BobbyRutan

4-2-2008 2:16 PM

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mccain, fool? or exposing rightwing lies?

BobbyRutan says:

Either McCain has no clue what he's talking about. Which is a very distinct possibility if anyone's been following his gaffes on what's actually taking place in the Mid-East ...... or ......

much of what the lunatic rightwing holds onto, as ridiculously low numbers of Iraqi deaths due to Bush's reckless war based on lies, is propaganda

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