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JayhawkSD

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7. According to Kerry...
Thu Sep 5, 2013, 10:02 AM
Sep 2013

...these rebels are a very small minority and are located only in the north. The large majority of the rebels are very nice fellows who are setting up civil governments in the towns they control and are holding polite converstaions with the peoples in those towns, washing their feet, building houses for them, and restocking their libraries.

He said so at the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee hearings on the Syrian issue and both Dempsey and Hagel, while remaining silent, nodded in a sage and solemn manner as he was speaking. Of course, they may have been falling asleep rather than agreeing with him, but...

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