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OnlinePoker

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15. Why?

Reply to Quantess (Reply #6)

Wed Dec 21, 2011, 05:56 PM

Dec 2011

He's the one who campaigned to expand the war into Pakistan if that's where the enemy were, saying "The first step must be getting off the wrong battlefield in Iraq, and taking the fight to the terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan."

Obama's Speech at Woodrow Wilson Center August 1, 2007
http://www.cfr.org/us-election-2008/obamas-speech-woodrow-wilson-center/p13974

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I second that. Luciferous Dec 2011 #3

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I hate this! Quantess Dec 2011 #6

who? our nobel peace prize winning president? not in the cards while he occupies the oval office.nt xiamiam Dec 2011 #8

Why? OnlinePoker Dec 2011 #15

He said he was going to escalate! joshcryer Dec 2011 #17

Surprise! Hell Hath No Fury Dec 2011 #9

Another Obama campaign promise kept. joshcryer Dec 2011 #16