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Spitfire of ATJ

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18. Meanwhile LBJ was tied to a tiny company in Texas that made helicopters....

Reply to hifiguy (Reply #12)

Mon Oct 22, 2012, 02:57 PM

Oct 2012

And it ended up with a contract and the main image of the war is those same helicopters.

Just like the Bush family had ties to the company that made the Bradley and the main image of Iraq was badly armored hulking vehicles.

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