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Exposethefrauds

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4. Actually the first advisors to the clusterfuck arrived 64 years ago

Reply to hobbit709 (Reply #2)

Thu Jun 19, 2014, 02:01 PM

Jun 2014

In 1950 Pres Truman sent them but they were not the first either post WWII we had advisors there when the French were getting their butts kicked, one even got killed in 48.

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