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Nevernose

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48. It was a rhetorical question

Thu May 8, 2014, 10:47 PM

May 2014

Sorry!

My point was that lots of people have lots of problems, all over the world, and it is not the US's mission to solve them all. If they need more helicopters for the rescue mission, I'm Derain we have extra.

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It was a rhetorical question Nevernose May 2014 #48

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