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sabrina 1

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2. I think most of the world supports Wikileaks, they are after all, a multiple award-
Sat Feb 23, 2013, 09:56 PM
Feb 2013

winning news media, which were first to produce this kind of transparency in response, originally, among other things, to China's oppression and censorship of news and after Tiananmen Square, the crackdown on dissent. Many of the original volunteers were from China.

And no one knows better than Dan Rather what the government can do to stop a journalist from publishing the truth about a leader whose created image was in danger of being exposed as a lie.

Good for him. He was always a good journalist which is why both Bush Sr and Bush Jr/Cheney, Rove et al, went to such lengths to try to discredit him.

Bush WAS AWOL no matter how they tried to cover it up and Rather was right to try to inform the American people of that fact.

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