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tomp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-29-08 09:01 AM
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75. you guys are all wrong if you think our demise is that recent.
we have had one hundred years of u.s. imperialism. that underlying paradigm is bipartisan. that is the source of all our ills.
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