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Thu Aug-24-06 10:36 AM
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| 63. Even if there are exceptions, the unexceptional will be mobilized at last |
| -I almost have to agree with this article - we need to reinstate the draft |
LynneSin |
Aug-24-06 08:50 AM |
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And what about the lives of the people getting drafted? They are just |
Mountainman |
Aug-24-06 08:57 AM |
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That's why I said "almost" |
LynneSin |
Aug-24-06 09:08 AM |
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I do care about the war and its consequences......... |
springhill |
Aug-24-06 09:53 AM |
#44 |
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I totally agree |
AngryOldDem |
Aug-24-06 01:04 PM |
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A national draft without exemptions (other than disabilities)..... |
Double T |
Aug-24-06 08:58 AM |
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Yes by all means lets kidnap America's children |
bowens43 |
Aug-24-06 09:00 AM |
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I know, for whatever reason, you are angry at the very thought. |
babylonsister |
Aug-24-06 09:03 AM |
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The government is not advocating a draft |
bowens43 |
Aug-24-06 09:08 AM |
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The government has their eye on November. After that, all bets |
babylonsister |
Aug-24-06 09:14 AM |
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Seriously, what will stop Bush from enacting the draft in 2007 |
LynneSin |
Aug-24-06 09:24 AM |
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As bellicose as this bunch is, a draft would not surprise me |
babylonsister |
Aug-24-06 09:33 AM |
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Go to the Quaker website |
LynneSin |
Aug-24-06 09:42 AM |
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THEY haven't closed the borders to Canada, yet.......... |
Double T |
Aug-24-06 09:08 AM |
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Canada wont be an option this time due to a 2001 "border declaration" |
Pugee |
Aug-24-06 09:22 AM |
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THEY have thought of ALMOST everything where initiating war.......... |
Double T |
Aug-24-06 09:43 AM |
#41 |
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And what about the children being kidnapped now |
LynneSin |
Aug-24-06 09:12 AM |
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Not this idiocy again. |
bowens43 |
Aug-24-06 08:58 AM |
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The Swiss have a universal mandatory draft that no one gets |
Dhalgren |
Aug-24-06 09:14 AM |
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Who did the Swiss ever fight? |
PADemD |
Aug-24-06 10:31 AM |
#57 |
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We should resolve to only fight whom the Swiss fight. |
Dhalgren |
Aug-24-06 10:33 AM |
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In some alternate universe. |
endarkenment |
Aug-24-06 10:38 AM |
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Then stop the war machine. Good citizens who have the |
Dhalgren |
Aug-24-06 10:49 AM |
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The Swiss have a centuries long tradition of neutrality |
endarkenment |
Aug-24-06 10:31 AM |
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I am not determined to send them anywhere. If the US is |
Dhalgren |
Aug-24-06 10:39 AM |
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You are enabling the government to take our kids. |
endarkenment |
Aug-24-06 11:56 AM |
#83 |
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Your kids are not being forced to fight and kill, but OUR kids are. |
Dhalgren |
Aug-24-06 02:22 PM |
#114 |
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You know me personally? |
endarkenment |
Aug-24-06 03:02 PM |
#122 |
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So seriously, what the hell is happening now |
LynneSin |
Aug-24-06 09:18 AM |
#23 |
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I've said this before and been (mildly) flamed for it. But a real |
Dhalgren |
Aug-24-06 09:03 AM |
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Then send YOUR kids |
bowens43 |
Aug-24-06 09:10 AM |
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I don't want to send any kids, anywhere. I think that if you say |
Dhalgren |
Aug-24-06 09:24 AM |
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THANK YOU!!!! |
shanti |
Aug-24-06 11:57 AM |
#84 |
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you have an idealized vision of what a drafted army would mean |
jsamuel |
Aug-24-06 09:11 AM |
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Do your children share your sentiments? n/t |
soup |
Aug-24-06 09:15 AM |
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One does, one doesn't. |
Dhalgren |
Aug-24-06 09:28 AM |
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Thanks for the reply. |
soup |
Aug-24-06 10:01 AM |
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Both of my kids are ardently and vocally anti-war. They are both |
Dhalgren |
Aug-24-06 10:10 AM |
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"too outspoken for his own good" |
soup |
Aug-24-06 01:40 PM |
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I want to end this war. I want to reduce the size of the Pentagon |
Dhalgren |
Aug-24-06 02:33 PM |
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I'm with you on this Dhalgren. |
Benhurst |
Aug-24-06 09:17 AM |
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I agree with you... |
Finder |
Aug-24-06 03:36 PM |
#124 |
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Not going to end war |
NoMoreMyths |
Aug-24-06 09:04 AM |
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the problem is that the kids are the ones who are already awake |
jsamuel |
Aug-24-06 09:10 AM |
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If you are against the war then don't enable the war mongers. |
endarkenment |
Aug-24-06 09:10 AM |
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The neo-con agenda... |
misternormal |
Aug-24-06 12:43 PM |
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They have studied it and know it would stop them... |
Finder |
Aug-24-06 03:40 PM |
#125 |
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Bush could reinstate the draft, and still lose the Iraq War. |
Sentinel Chicken |
Aug-24-06 09:12 AM |
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The Iraq "war" IS unwinnable... |
misternormal |
Aug-24-06 12:46 PM |
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conyers has the bill already to submit to the house to restore the draft |
madrchsod |
Aug-24-06 09:12 AM |
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That's Rangal's bill |
LynneSin |
Aug-24-06 09:21 AM |
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thanks- i thought it was conyers |
madrchsod |
Aug-24-06 12:08 PM |
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You're right |
BonnieJW |
Aug-24-06 09:16 AM |
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If the administration really wanted to |
SheilaT |
Aug-24-06 09:18 AM |
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Won't happen until after 2007 |
LynneSin |
Aug-24-06 09:25 AM |
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I understand what you are saying. |
Old and In the Way |
Aug-24-06 09:21 AM |
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I hope you have plans for them in case of the draft |
LynneSin |
Aug-24-06 09:28 AM |
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I have been saying this for a while |
nadinbrzezinski |
Aug-24-06 09:23 AM |
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NO, NO, NO and.....NO to a draft. There have always been exceptions... |
Blackhatjack |
Aug-24-06 09:26 AM |
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Draft Every Member of Congress, Let Them Serve in Rotated Shifts... |
Blackhatjack |
Aug-24-06 09:28 AM |
#33 |
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My hope is the Rangel Draft bill would be passed |
LynneSin |
Aug-24-06 09:29 AM |
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My child is not fighting in illegal immoral wars......... |
springhill |
Aug-24-06 09:59 AM |
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I don't want your kids to fight in it either |
LynneSin |
Aug-24-06 10:45 AM |
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I'm tired of that too..... |
springhill |
Aug-24-06 11:04 AM |
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Even if there are exceptions, the unexceptional will be mobilized at last |
MetaTrope |
Aug-24-06 10:36 AM |
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the draft will be the tripwire for people in the streets--kids won't go |
yurbud |
Aug-24-06 09:34 AM |
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I think your premise is wrong: "It's clear that the average Mr. & Mrs.... |
Peace Patriot |
Aug-24-06 09:34 AM |
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You have valid points but might I add.... |
LynneSin |
Aug-24-06 09:45 AM |
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I am in complete agreement with your statement, here: |
Dhalgren |
Aug-24-06 09:51 AM |
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A draft would just further PNAC. |
Lars39 |
Aug-24-06 09:53 AM |
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How would a draft further PNAC? |
Ron_Green |
Aug-24-06 10:41 AM |
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It would give them the warm bodies needed to go forward with Iran |
Lars39 |
Aug-24-06 10:53 AM |
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Yeah but the Congress cares if they're in the streets. |
Ron_Green |
Aug-24-06 11:04 AM |
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Until Dem get control of both Houses, I wouldn't chance it. |
Lars39 |
Aug-24-06 11:06 AM |
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an alternative to the draft . . . it's called ending the war . . . n/t |
OneBlueSky |
Aug-24-06 09:56 AM |
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We lost Vietnam even with a draft... |
SmokingJacket |
Aug-24-06 09:57 AM |
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The US will NEVER win a war in the Middele East or a War against |
leesa |
Aug-24-06 10:15 AM |
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It wouldn't wake up the country...it would mean more wars of "distraction. |
KoKo01 |
Aug-24-06 10:36 AM |
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Easy for you to say, or is it? |
Jed Dilligan |
Aug-24-06 10:00 AM |
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What would the limitations be? |
Divameow77 |
Aug-24-06 11:26 AM |
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I really don't know where they would draw the line, |
Jed Dilligan |
Aug-24-06 11:49 AM |
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The Iraq War/Occupation is illegal, unjust and was based on 100% lies. |
Peace Patriot |
Aug-24-06 10:06 AM |
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As long as these poor dupes keep signing up ... let them |
mainer |
Aug-24-06 10:07 AM |
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You never, NEVER served, or you would not nake |
nadinbrzezinski |
Aug-24-06 10:30 AM |
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Then why are some of them still signing up? |
mainer |
Aug-24-06 11:19 AM |
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Food and a roof over their families' heads are one reason. |
Lars39 |
Aug-24-06 10:32 AM |
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Some of these 'poor dupes' had little other options with their lives |
LynneSin |
Aug-24-06 10:48 AM |
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Recruiters are prominent at a job center in my city... |
AngryOldDem |
Aug-24-06 01:09 PM |
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The Rangel camp. |
Xap |
Aug-24-06 10:29 AM |
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Since the Civil War |
endarkenment |
Aug-24-06 10:34 AM |
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It may not end them |
Xap |
Aug-24-06 10:44 AM |
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you are threatening my children's lives. |
endarkenment |
Aug-24-06 11:50 AM |
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Not at all. |
Xap |
Aug-24-06 02:19 PM |
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The elites will always have an out. |
endarkenment |
Aug-24-06 02:56 PM |
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Proposing a reinstatement of the draft is POLITICAL SUICIDE. |
oc2002 |
Aug-24-06 11:38 AM |
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Sorry, but I think that this is a horrible idea |
MadHound |
Aug-24-06 11:43 AM |
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Rangel has lost all my respect. |
MATTMAN |
Aug-24-06 11:53 AM |
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But understand where Rangel is coming from |
LynneSin |
Aug-24-06 12:37 PM |
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I disagree 100%. Do this and I'll be a criminal or Canadian. |
Beelzebud |
Aug-24-06 11:54 AM |
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The draft would move people from the apathy... |
Finder |
Aug-24-06 12:19 PM |
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That's exactly the wrong reason to have a draft. |
meldroc |
Aug-24-06 02:41 PM |
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I am against a draft |
blues90 |
Aug-24-06 12:27 PM |
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Best thing to do is turn this over to the UN |
LynneSin |
Aug-24-06 02:40 PM |
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I'd be on a plane to New Zealand with my babies... |
MrsGrumpy |
Aug-24-06 12:28 PM |
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Hell I'd take my nephews and join you there |
LynneSin |
Aug-24-06 12:32 PM |
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It scares me so much Lynne... |
MrsGrumpy |
Aug-24-06 12:37 PM |
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I know, but imagine if your kids were over there right now |
LynneSin |
Aug-24-06 12:41 PM |
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What did LBJ call it when he pulled us out of Vietnam? |
rocknation |
Aug-24-06 12:41 PM |
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"Peace with honor" sounds right... |
AngryOldDem |
Aug-24-06 01:11 PM |
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Please don't fall for this! |
Nikki Stone 1 |
Aug-24-06 12:47 PM |
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Rangel's bill has NOTHING to do with wanting a draft |
LynneSin |
Aug-24-06 01:22 PM |
#102 |
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Right--Rangel's draft bill says NO EXEMPTIONS FOR ANYONE |
rocknation |
Aug-24-06 01:40 PM |
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I think Rangel has gone so far to have a few votes on it |
LynneSin |
Aug-24-06 02:01 PM |
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Whatever his outward motivations seem to be, the result is that |
Nikki Stone 1 |
Aug-24-06 02:00 PM |
#107 |
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Only person reading stuff into it is you |
LynneSin |
Aug-24-06 02:16 PM |
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Thanks for not falling into ad hominem (or is that ad feminam) attacks. |
Nikki Stone 1 |
Aug-24-06 02:33 PM |
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It scares me to the bejesus that I could be |
LynneSin |
Aug-24-06 02:38 PM |
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I think we both understand how the politics works |
Nikki Stone 1 |
Aug-24-06 03:34 PM |
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How many kids will have to DIE... |
misternormal |
Aug-24-06 12:55 PM |
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"and they are wagering that the American people don't care either" |
LynneSin |
Aug-24-06 02:09 PM |
#111 |
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Will my child have to die to end this war? |
dogday |
Aug-24-06 01:16 PM |
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My heart goes out to you |
LynneSin |
Aug-24-06 01:26 PM |
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Name removed |
Aug-24-06 01:28 PM |
#104 |
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What the hell do you think is happening in this country |
LynneSin |
Aug-24-06 02:06 PM |
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You can't have a draft without exemptions. And the rich will get them |
ComerPerro |
Aug-24-06 02:08 PM |
#110 |
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Not my sons! Not for bushit's wars. Not ever! |
Blue State Native |
Aug-24-06 02:40 PM |
#119 |
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