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mn9driver

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4. We've heard this bullshit before.

Fri Sep 6, 2013, 08:50 AM

Sep 2013

Just more evidence that it really doesn't matter who holds office these days. The people that pull the strings are exactly the same.

“There’s a lot of money to pay for this that doesn’t have to be U.S. taxpayer money, and it starts with the assets of the Iraqi people…and on a rough recollection, the oil revenues of that country could bring between $50 and $100 billion over the course of the next two or three years…We’re dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon.” -Paul Wolfowitz, April 2003

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