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David__77

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12. They said that about Gaddafi too.

Reply to leftstreet (Reply #8)

Wed Aug 28, 2013, 04:18 PM

Aug 2013

They said it was "protecting civilians" and not to facilitate regime change. It was a LIE, of course. Obama lied to us, and I imagine he is doing so again.

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