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You have meddled with the primary forces of nature, Mr Beale, and I won’t have it!

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Mr. T is a knucklehead – the pop-ups are great

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Bailout:

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This is great

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(AP) Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel, fresh from an Iraq trip with Democrat Barack Obama, said the presidential candidates should focus on the war’s future and stop arguing over the success of last year’s troop surge.

Hagel didn’t name names but aimed his remarks at Republican John McCain. McCain, while Obama traveled the Middle East, has attacked Obama for opposing the military escalation last year that increased security in Iraq.

“Quit talking about, ‘Did the surge work or not work,’ or, ‘Did you vote for this or support this,’” Hagel said Thursday on a conference call with reporters.

“Get out of that. We’re done with that. How are we going to project forward?” the Nebraska senator said. “What are we going to do for the next four years to protect the interest of America and our allies and restructure a new order in the world. … That’s what America needs to hear from these two candidates. And that’s where I am.”

Hagel, too, opposed the troop increase strategy, though he acknowledged Thursday it brought about positive changes. “When you flood the zone with superior American military firepower, and you put 30,000 of the world’s best troops in a country, there’s going to be a result there,” Hagel said.

Whether the surge worked, though, can’t be measured, Hagel said, arguing the small gains came at a high price. He said President Bush’s decision last year to dispatch an additional 30,000 troops to Iraq has cost more than 1,000 American lives and billions of dollars.

Though Hagel is a Republican, his name has been floated as a potential vice presidential running mate for Obama. Like McCain, he is a Vietnam war veteran, but Hagel is a fierce critic of the war in Iraq. He said Thursday he would consider running with Obama on the Democratic ticket but that he doesn’t expect to be asked.

Hagel joined Democratic Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island in traveling with Obama to the Middle East. Reed said the trip was productive. “It wasn’t just a photo op and social chit chat,” Reed said in a telephone interview.

Reed said the group pressed Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to have the Iraqi government do more.

“Unless the government of Iraq can start delivering — delivering jobs, delivering funds, performing — then the gains that have been made will be quickly erased,” Reed said. “I think that is a point that we all stressed, particularly Senator Obama, with the prime minister.”

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(TP) President Bush denied knowledge of the contract, saying that he “knew nothing about the deal” and was “concerned”:

I knew nothing about the deal. I need to know exactly how it happened. To the extent that it does undermine the ability for the government to come up with an oil revenue sharing plan that unifies the country, obviously if it undermines it I’m concerned.

However, the documents released by the Oversight Committee today include ample evidence that officials in the State Department and Commerce Department “knew about Hunt Oil’s interest in the Kurdish region months before the contract was executed”:

- Hunt sent two letters to the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board “making clear his intentions to pursue oil exploration in Kurdistan.”

- Hunt Oil’s general manager informed the Regional Reconstruction Team (RRT) that “Hunt is expecting to sign an exploration contract,” a warning that was sent to the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad and to the State Department.

- Hunt Oil officials met with the RRT to inquire about U.S. policy towards oil contracts with the KRG, and were told that the “U.S. has no policy, for nor against.”

- In an internal company e-mail, Hunt’s general manager said that there was “no communication” from the State Department that Hunt should not make the deal, despite “ample opportunity to do so.”

This isn’t the first time the Bush administration has helped out the billionaire Hunt. In 2006, a proposed border fence in Texas “abruptly ended” right before Hunt’s property.

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June 6, 2008 –

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How many of these scenarios have there ever actually been?

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Senator Voinovich A big moment…

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One of the best speeches in my lifetime:

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“…Dwarf thieves had infested Swedish buses,⁹ Lithuania was pondering changing its name,¹⁰ and a plot by retired Turkish Army officers to kill Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk was foiled. ¹¹ Police in Malda, India, were battling avian flu by conducting a poultry massacre. “We have planned to collect ‘backyard chickens’ from the houses in the evening and kill all of them late at night,” said the district’s deputy director of animal-resources development, N. K. Shit.¹² George Piro, the FBI field agent who interrogated Saddam Hussein, recalled his last meeting with the Iraqi dictator, when the two smoked cigars and Saddam kissed Piro on the cheek three times. “It made me feel,” he said, “somewhat awkward.” (by Christian Lorentzen)

Scott Horton is without a doubt my favorite writer at the moment. Harper’s online has his work up for free on the site’s front page. You can find out why John Yoo hasn’t come over for dinner lately. Keynesian economics, Leo Strauss, J$hn Ashcr$ft, Afghanistan, “Blitzwasser” or hot-water incident (so named for the kettles of boiling water that the citizens threw at federal tax collectors), Don Siegelman…

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by Sebastian Junger, published in Vanity Fair – February 2002

Afghanistan’s master guerrilla commander, Ahmed Shah Massoud, was assassinated by suspected al-Qaeda suicide bombers just two days before September 11. But his Northern Alliance coalition became the U.S.’s most important weapon against the Taliban in a war that combined 19th-century slaughter and 21st-century technology. As alliance soldiers marched on Kabul—with a massed-infantry assault amid the deadly shadows of B-52 bombers—the author saw Massoud’s legacy revealed, in the Afghans’ hatred of foreigners fighting for the Taliban, in their readiness to die for freedom, and even, poignantly, in one man’s act of mercy.

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An unnatural fluttering of the plastic over our windows woke me. It sucked in and snapped back three times, as if the whole world were out of breath, and then it lay quiet.

A gray light leaked into the room. Dogs were barking somewhere across the fields. I got up and pulled on my clothes and climbed onto the mud roof of the house we were staying in. The moon was midway in the sky, waning toward Ramadan, and the east was shot with red. A single B-52 bomber was making its way silently across the sky at 30,000 feet, laying four thin contrails out behind. It continued past me and then made a perfect arc far to the south, where the front lines were.

I couldn’t hear the bombs—they were 20 miles away—but I could feel them: four distinct pressure waves in the air that bumped past me and on up the valley. A few days earlier I’d talked to a mujahid who had fought the Russians in the 1980s. He described a Russian rocket hitting the mouth of a cave he was hiding in. The explosion itself didn’t touch him, he said, but the concussion had made his ears and eyes bleed for days. That was just a Russian rocket; these were 2,000-pound bombs.

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This is one of my own creations, cliped out of what I consider to be far and away the best episode of Real Time w/ Bill Maher this season.  Rahm Emanuel was also scheduled, but he didn’t show up.  What a blessing! As the result was was honest, brilliant, alive and often hillarious.  The video is all of the panel discussion, without any of the interviews or Bill’s solo segments at the beginning or end.  Enjoy!

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A Special Comment on torture:

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Check this out. In 8 minutes, Dodd runs through just about everything. No meandering. This man needs to be the senate majority leader. What I saw and heard here had ‘Profiles in Courage’ potential.

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He was a Spainard who made the voyage to North America in the 1500s. The following work is a portion of his ‘Brief Account of the Devastation of the Indies’, published in 1542. The first reading of this a while back was shocking, but the reason it came to mind recently was the “phony soldiers” episode. Casas had written this and sent it back to Spain for the kingdom’s own purposes, but it was leaked, translated and used by other countries to point out his country’s sins in America. Especially Protestant nations like England and The Netherlands, whose Spanish adversaries were Catholic (along those lines, if anyone hasn’t studied The Hundred Years War, you’re missing out). So Casas was accused of treason and heresy for telling the truth. Patriotism warranted such charges, as those who subscribe to the “phony soldiers” mantra today believe also. You’ve got to read below the fold to get even a taste of what Casas exposed:

“The Indies were discovered in the year one thousand four hundred and ninety-two. In the following year a great many Spaniards went there with the intention of settling the land. Thus, forty-nine years have passed since the first settlers penetrated the land, the first so claimed being the large and most happy isle called Hispaniola, which is six hundred leagues in circumference. Around it in all directions are many other islands, some very big, others very small, and all of them were, as we saw with our own eyes, densely populated with native peoples called Indians. This large island was perhaps the most densely populated place in the world. There must be close to two hundred leagues of land on this island, and the seacoast has been explored for more than ten thousand leagues, and each day more of it is being explored. And all the land so far discovered is a beehive of people; it is as though God had crowded into these lands the great majority of mankind.
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By Robin Fox, from an essay in the September/October issue of Society. Fox is a professor of social theory at Rutgers and the author, most recently, of Participant Observer: Memoir of a Transatlantic Life. His “Human Nature and Human Rights” appeared in the April 2001 issue of Harper’s Magazine.

Since Laocoon’s warning to his fellow Trojans went so tragically unheeded, the course of history has been strewn with the corpses of ungrateful nations which, despite the misery that stemmed from their inability to govern their own affairs, bitterly resented and actively resisted the firm and forceful help of others. The stranger’s gift of peace, order, and prosperity is lesswelcome to us than the death, chaos, and poverty that are our own doing. For in the end they are our own, and that is what matters to us. Like truculent adolescents, we do not want to be told how to do things or have them done for us; we want to make our own, even fatal, mistakes. We will take what we can use from what is offered, but we want, at last, to do it ourselves: to manage our own lives, however badly. The main thing about the stranger, after all, is that he is strange. He is not like us; he will never understand us. Our greatest fear, perhaps because the possibility is often so seductive, is that we will become like him and lose our selves. The stranger’s gift never comes without strings, and we do not want to be tied.

We of the post-Enlightenment Anglophone West are among the most earnest of the givers. We are not, like our medieval Catholic ancestors, really proponents of the Crusade and the holy war against the heathen. Weare at heart Protestant missionaries: We want to bring the good news and the benefits of civilization to the benighted of the earth. And if they don’t want it, then like Protestant parents, and entirely for their own good of course, we must sternly make them accept it. Certainly, we hoped to make profits and attain political power in the process, but these were small prices the benighted had to pay for the incomparable gifts we had to offer. Critics of colonialism miss the point if all they see is the profits and the power. Our civilizing mission was, and still is, as dear to us as the jihad is to Muslims. Even when it is not Protestantism per se that we are offering, it is the children of the Protestant Ethic that we know as democracy, liberty, equality, and the free market. Our learned men tell us we are the foreordained bearers of a truth so fundamental that with its triumph history will come to an end, there being nothing left for mankind to achieve. If this is so, how can the benighted so stubbornly, and even violently, refuse our gift of a free leg up onto the stage of world history? Read the rest of this entry �

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This one is perfect. A lot of it is hillarious, especially the early parts when they’re interviewing the people who worked on the most notorious porn film ever made.

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This is its genesis right here – text of an amendment to the defense authorization bill (note that paragraphs 3 and 4 were removed from the final version, and 5 remained):

(1) that the manner in which the United States transitions and structures its military presence in Iraq will have critical long-term consequences for the future of the Persian Gulf and the Middle East, in particular with regard to the capability of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran to pose a threat to the security of the region, the prospects for democracy for the people of the region, and the health of the global economy;

(2) that it is a vital national interest of the United States to prevent the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran from turning Shi’a militia extremists in Iraq into a Hezbollah-like force that could serve its interests inside Iraq, including by overwhelming, subverting, or co-opting institutions of the legitimate Government of Iraq;

(3) that it should be the policy of the United States to combat, contain, and roll back the violent activities and destabilizing influence inside Iraq of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, its foreign facilitators such as Lebanese Hezbollah, and its indigenous Iraqi proxies;

(4) to support the prudent and calibrated use of all instruments of United States national power in Iraq, including diplomatic, economic, intelligence, and military instruments, in support of the policy described in paragraph (3) with respect to the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran and its proxies;

(5) that the United States should designate the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps as a foreign terrorist organization under section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act and place the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps on the list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists, as established under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and initiated under Executive Order 13224; and

(6) that the Department of the Treasury should act with all possible expediency to complete the listing of those entities targeted under United Nations Security Council Resolutions 1737 and 1747 adopted unanimously on December 23, 2006 and March 24, 2007, respectively.

Paragraph number 5 cracked the door open, and far too many Senators remain naive as to what this President can and will do with an inch. If Iran’s national military is a terrorist organization, then they’ll reason an attack is authorized based on the President’s war powers in fighting the global war on terror. If Iran’s military is a terrorist organization according to the US Congress, then there’s nothing left to discuss. There doesn’t need to be WMDs. The nuke reasons aren’t necessary once this thing passes.

Cute little buggers that they are, the Democrats attached the Hate Crimes bill to this defense authorization, and so, the blood of foreigners will be traded in exchange for legislation that has no business being a part of it, ala the minimum wage increase tacked onto the last war spending bill this past spring. I could go on forever on this, but one example of why I’ve been depressed this week is Dick Durbin, who speaks harshly about the amendment and then 12 hours later votes in favor of it. Is he on drugs? Are any of these fucks paying attention? I suppose I have less to complain about than others, as Kerry and Kennedy both voted against the amendment, though it does seem silly for a Lieberman/Kyl amendment on Iran to get an up or down vote on the floor, yet Webb’s amendment couldn’t break the filibuster. How does that make sense? Republicans get their votes on this and the bullshit MoveOn amendment, but an amendment to give troops equal time home as time deployed can’t make it to the floor? Will it ever be time to say enough’s enough and shut the place down?

Harry Reid is a chump, Dianne Feinstein is a disgrace and Hillary Clinton just lost my vote forever. Carl Levin…he can be talked into anything. “My good friend, you say you want to work on a bipartisan amendment to outlaw breathing…hmm, Bi-Partisan ey?” Click here to see the roll call, 76-22.

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h/t to Blue Gal over at Crooks and Liars

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Liberal Oasis – Bill Scher’s radio program – Part 1

Part 2

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by Andrew Cockburn – published in The Nation magazine (excerpts):

In September 2003, Secretary of State Colin Powell descended on the town to inaugurate a newly completed museum commemorating the 5,000 victims, making emotional reference to the “choking mothers [who] died holding their choking babies to their chests.” Inside, tasteful displays featured dioramas of huddled corpses and other evocative memorabilia, including the empty casings of mustard and nerve gas bombs now painted up in bright colors…Saddam never lacked for partners. He had launched his original ill-fated attack on Iran in September 1980 after garnering an indirect endorsement from Washington via the Saudis. The best the UN Security Council could do in the face of this act of unprovoked aggression was to issue a statement appealing to both parties to “desist from all armed activity.” Two years later, US official complacency was jarred by the unexpected revival of Iranian military fortunes and consequent Iraqi retreats. As a result, for the rest of the war US policy was geared toward preventing an Iraqi defeat by any means necessary.

Iraq first resorted to chemical weapons in the mountains of the Kurdish north. In July 1983, the Iranians attacked at Haj Omran, a strategic mountain pass in the far northeast of Iraq. In a telling example of the ethnic and political complexities of that part of the world, the attacking force included elements of the Badr Corps, Iraqi Shiite prisoners recruited from POW camps, along with anti-Saddam Kurds from the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Masoud Barzani. Opposing this force were units of other Iraqi Kurds from the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), headed by Jalal Talabani, who between 1983 and 1984 was allied with Saddam against the Iranians. The attackers were initially successful, until Iraqi planes swooped overhead and dropped bombs. Fighters in the area suddenly smelled garlic and soon afterward developed breathing problems and skin lesions, symptoms that inexorably spread to those lower on the mountain as the gas–sulphur mustard developed during World War I–drifted downhill…

To convince the Iraqi leader that we really were his friends, the Administration dispatched the President’s Special Middle East Envoy, Donald Rumsfeld, bearing a gift for Saddam from Reagan: a pair of golden spurs. In much of the Middle East, Rumsfeld was an unpopular figure–the US Ambassador in Damascus would leave town, after locking up the liquor cabinet in the residence, whenever he heard the envoy was on his way. But Rummy was popular in Baghdad, where Saddam’s men enthused that they regarded him as “a good listener” and “liked him as a person.” Rumsfeld did not spoil the party by giving chemical weapons more than a passing mention; instead he spent much of his private time with Saddam trying to sell his host on the idea of an Iraqi oil pipeline to Israel.

The following March, when news of Iraq’s revival of poison gas as a weapon finally surfaced in the press, the State Department condemned “the prohibited use of chemical weapons wherever it occurs,” while Rumsfeld was sent back to Baghdad to pass the word that the condemnation had been essentially pro forma and that the American desire to improve relations “at a pace of Iraq’s choosing remain[s] undiminished.” Meanwhile, US diplomats worked to quash discussion of the issue at international forums. No wonder Saddam exulted later that year over what he called “the beautiful atmosphere between us.” The “beautiful atmosphere” soured for a period when it emerged that the United States had been simultaneously selling arms to Iran…

The memorial inaugurated by Powell six months after the invasion was a priority project for Kurdish officials, built, so locals concluded, for the benefit of visiting dignitaries who came to view the exhibit and grieve accordingly. Halabjans, chafing at their neglect by their supposed representatives, were not impressed. On March 16, 2006, the eighteenth anniversary of the attack, they marched to the building and torched it. “Many delegations went to that monument,” one of the locals was quoted as saying. “They were paying a visit to the dead people, but neglecting the living.”

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The security situation is improved on each piece of ground directly beneath our soldiers’ feet. Put these soldiers in vehicles, and the IED explosions argue against this theory. Our forces exit an area, and what happens then? The security situation reverts back to what it was prior to our surge of bodies into it. Insurgents, as often as they may incorrectly be described as puppets under the control of outside forces, are the Iraqis themselves. An obviously illegitimate, and hastily established national government has for the most part dissolved, while one level down, back-to-back assassinations of regional governors signal a grim reality, that the political situation will have to be built from the bottom up to exist with any authority or legitimacy.

Iraq’s Prime Minister has visited Iran, and has invited the Iranian President to Iraq. Just as we supplied arms to both sides in the Iran-Iraq war, and to Afghani insurgents in their fight against a Soviet occupying force, other nations in the world are doing the exact same thing, as the oil siphoned off and stolen each month since the invasion by insurgents provides ample trade value for whatever is needed. The events in Iraq are driving the situation, regardless of US policy. We are simply along for the ride at this point. In the year 2007 Iraq has destabilized politically, with both Sunni and al-Sadr’s Shiite blocs essentially pulling out of the federal government altogether, thereby rendering every single piece of legislation needing to be passed an impossibility.

This will never get better for us. On our account the Iraqis will not do a single thing from now until we finally leave. An intellectually dishonest attempt by someone, to trump up the significance of peace in a neighborhood or city that our troops currently have on lock-down, is the only example I’ve heard over the past several weeks to explain why we are now on a path towards victory. “The surge is working”, they say. In Baghdad? In any areas where our troops are not currently a presence, is there peace and safety in Iraq today? There is not. Students of history, military history especially, must recognize our position in Iraq today, and realize it is an exact replica of the French occupations of Vietnam and Algeria, as well as our own occupation of Vietnam. Anyone who doesn’t at this point is choosing faith over reason, and in time, will find themselves on the wrong side of history. Perhaps even then, arguing against something as certain as gravity.

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This case is on my mind, and I wanted to post this video once more. In light of what we now know, watch this again and consider how absolutely full of shit Gonzo is right here:

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1. Fatigue cripples US army in Iraq

2. Memo shows [Utah] mine owners already knew they had roof problems in March

3. Texas girl in [taxpayer funded] ”boot camp” is tied to a van and dragged

4. Cheney in ’94 on why it would be stupid to occupy Iraq

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I’m not sure how many, if any, of the readers of this blog actually watch these long videos I post from time to time, but my idea in doing so is that a single viewer is enough to justify posting them. This one here is especially important, as it covers something the corporate media would rather ignore. The disparity in Ohio when it came to the distribution of voting machines, is something that was covered everywhere, but since then it has become a figment of the nation’s imagination. What took place in Ohio is something that must be exposed at the highest level (looking at you Mr. Waxman), and prevented from happening in the future by there being federal laws in place that ultimately strip a state’s ability to run elections as if the United States was a third world authoritarian wasteland.

Cynthia McKinney, a former Congresswoman from Georgia, is also prominent in this film. I’ve taken her case over to Control Congress, a blog that is run by a Republican radio host in Georgia. John Konop is the host in question, and his blog is an absolute open forum where nothing is censored. I urge everyone to check out the video, and also the thread it prompted me to start over on John’s blog. Open primaries…there will be more to come on this topic from me, time permiting…btw, the Yankees are now 9 games behind after Boston’s 6 run 12th inning in Tampa Bay.

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There are other comics worth featuring here, but its during times like these when Hicks is the one I think about most often. Imagine him teeing off on Dubya! RIP Bill…

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The story is going to be buried (U.S. Aborted Raid on Qaeda Chiefs in Pakistan in ’05), and our country will once again be left stupefied, wondering “what happened”, as the Pulitzer Prize winning book Ghost Wars by Steve Coll (BUY IT!) will be followed up with a much needed sequel, leaving me and apparently the CIA and US Army Special Forces wondering what blows up next. It is a replay of the late 1990s in the Afghan-Kush region, only instead of the political implications of a blow job and how a failed raid against al Qaeda would “play” for the administration in charge back then, it is the political implications of already having embarked on a remarkably naive clusterfuck of historic precedence in Iraq, and because the childish codgers who brought us that one were looking to make up for it by doing the same exact thing in Iran as soon as they could, it was Pakistan’s joke of a government that Donald Rumsfeld apparently concluded was too important of an ally to risk offending, with the carrying out of military operations in its tribal areas, where it so happened that a meeting of al Qaeda brass took place at a time and location we were aware of beforehand.

I’m rarely angered anymore by the newspaper, having grown accustomed to the fact that good news will be difficult to come by most days, but tonight I’m really pissed off. The bottom line here is that given the opportunity to strike against the organization that took down the towers, you and I can no longer be confident that the political angle will be pushed aside as promised. For Clinton it was the reluctance to fire off more rockets, since the ones that landed in Sudan weren’t able to kill bin Laden, and also the fact that he’d managed to give Republicans an opening to work with, concerning what came out of the opening he’d asked Monica to work with.

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