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Farmer-Rick

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21. Yeah, the same kind of crap President W

Reply to blue-wave (Reply #18)

Tue Jan 6, 2026, 02:43 PM

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And Cheney carried out against detainees in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

And here we are pretending we are better than Maduro.

The hypocrisy of the US just never ends.

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Before Putin in fact. Well before. Aussie105 Tuesday #33

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