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golfguru

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53. You are ill-informed

Mon Sep 29, 2014, 02:01 AM

Sep 2014

Before our CIA engineered removal of Shah of Iran,
there was no 911, no ISIS, no terrorism.
If Bush did not attack Iraq, there would be no ISIS
and no war in Syria.

We need to get our military out of middle-east.
Who appointed us world police?
Why are we borrowing money from China to fight wars?

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