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HopeHoops

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2. They have the capacity. They just don't want the backlash.

Reply to surfdog (Reply #1)

Fri Mar 2, 2012, 11:03 AM

Mar 2012

And keep in mind, the shrub destabilized the region by taking out Iraq. It had been at parity in the same way that the US and USSR were. We wiped out one side of the chess board.

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