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Octafish

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10. ''Money trumps peace.'' -- appointed pretzeldent George Walker Bush, Feb. 14, 2007

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Mon Oct 6, 2014, 06:09 PM

Oct 2014

The very words of George W Bush on Feb. 14, 2007, uttered at a press conference in which not a single of the callow, cowed press corpse saw fit to ask a follow-up. And then he laughs.

I remember Cindy Sheehan tried to bring it to our nation's attention.

As for his Poppy: Bush Sr told the FBI he was in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.

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