Old Whine Rack

[Ryan]

"I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge."
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"It is criminal to put our servicemen and women in harm's way and to put the lives of so many civilians on the line for the misguided frustrations of the Bush administration."
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[Ryan]

Speaking about 9/11, "Many families have been devastated tonight. This just is not right. They did not deserve to die. If someone did this to get back at Bush, then they did so by killing thousands of people who DID NOT VOTE for him! Boston, New York, DC, and the planes' destination of California -- these were places that voted AGAINST Bush!"
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"... You know he's [Bush] there illegally. You know he was not elected either by the popular vote or by the vote in Florida."

"... we know all those facts about Florida and what Katherine Harris did, and the private firm that took African-Americans off the voting rolls and prohibited them from voting. But I've been surprised in this first week how many average Americans were not aware of all of the trickery and deceit that took place in the year before the election to fix it for George W. Bush."
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From a comedy club rant, "the passengers were scaredy-cats because they were mostly white. If the passengers had included black men, he claimed, those killers, with their puny bodies and unimpressive small knives, would have been crushed by the dudes."
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To Bush, "The majority of Americans -- the ones who never elected you -- are not fooled by your weapons of mass distraction."
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To Bush, "As Bill Maher said last week, how bad do you have to suck to lose a popularity contest with Saddam Hussein? The whole world is against you, Mr. Bush. Count your fellow Americans among them."

" ... How bad does it have to get before you realize that you are an army of one on this war?"
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To Bush, "... Your ignorance of the world has not only made you look stupid, it has painted you into a corner you can't get out of."
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"I agree with the National Rifle Association when they say, 'Guns don't kill people, people kill people.' Except I would alter that to say, 'Guns don't kill people, Americans kill people.' We're the only country that does this, and we do it on an personal level in our neighborhoods and within our families and our schools, and we do it on a global level. The American attitude is that we believe we have a right to just go in and bomb another country. This is where Bush is going right now, right?"
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When asked about his inaccuracies in his book "Stupid White Men," he shrugged off the quesiton. "You know, look, this is a book of political humor. So, I mean, I don't respond to that sort of stuff, you know," he said.
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His 2003 Oscar acceptance speech:

"On behalf of our producers Kathleen Glynn and Michael Donovan from Canada, I'd like to thank the Academy for this.

"I have invited my fellow documentary nominees on the stage with us, and we would like to — they're here in solidarity with me because we like nonfiction.

"We like nonfiction and we live in fictitious times.

"We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president.

"We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons.

"Whether it's the fictition of duct tape or fictition of orange alerts we are against this war, Mr. Bush.

"Shame on you, Mr. Bush, shame on you.

"And any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up.

"Thank you very much."
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"Unfortunately, Bush and Co. are not through yet. This invasion and conquest will encourage them to do it again elsewhere. The real purpose of this war was to say to the rest of the world, "Don't Mess with Texas - If You Got What We Want, We're Coming to Get It!"
www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?messageDate=2003-04-08

"You've got to have a lot of empathy for them because there's not many of them left. Their way of thinking? The angry white guy? Their days are numbered."
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Moore claimed, during an interview on Costas' show, that the Bush administration "absolutely" knows where Osama bin Laden is located and doesn't go after him "because he's funded by their friends in Saudi Arabia!"
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"You see, George, it's not the lying and the doctoring of intelligence that has me all upset. It's that you've had control of Iraq for over two months now -- and you couldn't even find the time to plant just a few nukes or vats of nerve gas and at least make it LOOK like you weren't lying to us."

"Your blatant refusal to back up your verbal deception with the kind of fake evidence we have become used to is a slap in our collective American face. It's as if you are saying, 'These Americans are so damn apathetic and lazy, we won't have to produce any weapons to back up our claims!' If you had just dug a few silo holes in the last month outside Tikrit, or spread some anthrax around those Winnebagos near Basra, or 'discovered' some plutonium with that stash of home movies of Uday Hussein feeding his tigers, then it would have said to us that you thought we might revolt if you were caught in a lie. It would have shown us some *respect*. We honestly wouldn't have cared if it later came out that you planted all the WMD -- sure, we'd be properly peeved, but at least we would have been proud to know that you knew you HAD to back up your phony claims with the real deal!"
www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?messageDate=2003-06-26

[Ryan]

"What the United States has been doing for the past year is bombing innocent civilians without having come anywhere close to catching Osama bin Laden or any presumed enemy..."
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"...we [the United States] are not the good guys..."
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In response to what he would have done after 9/11, "I would not have continually bombed innocent civilians from 30,000 feet with no possibility of being accurate and maiming and killing and destroying the lives of many more people than died at the World Trade Center."
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"There's nothing wrong with responding [to terrorism]. It's how do you respond...our government is incredibly violent and aggressive and rapacious. And we want to control those regions."
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"And now just because we focused on Iraq for many reasons, not the least of which is oil... and some kind of vendetta maybe that our President's father has... Who knows what the reasons are? It doesn't really matter."
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"Since 9-11, more people have died in Afghanistan and Iraq than in New York that day — and for not a very good reason."
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[Ryan]

"It's nice being in Europe this week. Almost everyone in Germany and France is in sync with the governments. I almost forgot what it's like to be proud of my government."
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"I hope the world community will continue to voice itself and apply pressure on the U.S. government. American citizens have to do it too. It's dismaying to see the unilateralism that the government is doing. They're aren't enough rational steps."
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"As an actor I know in my mind, watching him [Bush], what a low-quality mind he has. Because I've been doing this since I was 5 years old, I know when a person is saying words that aren't their own -- and it's apparent as it could possibly be to me that he's a mouthpiece, and not even a good mouthpiece. [Ronald] Reagan was a B-movie actor, but at least he had the ability to touch certain emotional notes. Bush is just utterly incapable of it."
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[Ryan]

"With three Supreme Court positions opening in the next administration, I'm frightened to think of a Republican in office, especially one raised by a father who was in the CIA. I'm moving to a different country if little Damien II gets elected."
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"I don't know if you heard about this thing called freedom of speech, man. It's worth thinking about it, because it's going away. In the last year of being able to use it, we're sure as [expletive] going to use it and I'm not going to apologize."
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[Ryan]

"We have some good people in politics - it's just that they don't win," he said. "In the same way we have some good movies, but they don't succeed in the US.

"The electoral process resembles that of the movie-going process: they choose candidates as they choose movies. It's something that we grow to accept."
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"I don’t know if people value the thought of revolution any more. I think it would be an enormously patriotic movement to invest in the possibility of revolution."
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"I think that people like the Howard Sterns, the Bill O'Reillys and to a lesser degree the bin Ladens of the world are making a horrible contribution [to society]. I'd like to trade O'Reilly for bin Laden. [O'Reilly] is a grumpy, self-loathing joke."
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"There's a long history of people who capitalize on the lowest common denominator of people's impulses. Adolf Hitler being one of them. Not everybody wants to hit the wall in a violent rage and break their knuckles, so he does it for them....

"These guys--Joe McCarthy, Bill O'Reilly--die like everyone else. And when they do their legacy is one of damaging the spirit of good things, and they become rather broken, pathetic figures. And it is going to happen to him."

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"I beg you, help save America before yours is a legacy of shame and horror."
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"Simply put, if there is a war or continued sanctions against Iraq, the blood of Americans and Iraqis alike will be on our hands."

"My trip here is to personally record the human face of the Iraqi people so that their blood -- along with that of American soldiers -- would not be invisible on my own hands."
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He said the US-led invasion of Iraq was, "done without any credible evidence of imminent threat to the United States."
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"Our flag has been waving, it seems, in servicing a regime change significantly benefiting US corporations."
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SCARBOROUGH: Tonight’s "Buzz" begins with our Hollywood "Babble-On" segment.

Actor and political pundit Sean Penn has once again swung wildly at the Bush administration. Recently, Penn spent $135,000 on a full-page ad in "The New York Times" discussing his anti-war stance and the visits he made to Iraq. In this week’s "Time Out New York," Penn called America a dictatorship. And when asked whether the Iraqi people were better off without Saddam, Penn replied: "Who the blank are we to say whether they’re better off? We have a dictatorship in this country. Our government is presently the greatest threat to our people." Penn went on to say, "Unlike George W. Bush, I had a father who read the Constitution of the United States."

So, in summary, Sean Penn called America a dictatorship. He said President Bush is more of a threat to our country than Osama bin Laden. And he said he didn’t know if the Iraqi people were better off under Saddam Hussein or us. If you’re scoring at home, Mr. Penn just moved ahead of Janeane Garofalo and Danny Glover in the Hollywood hothead sweepstakes contest.
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[Ryan]

"I'm against this whole 'Let's bomb a new country because things aren't going our way.' It's, let's change the subject from Cheney and Halliburton and the crumbling confidence in the stock market. Talk about cynical! Because it's the cost of human lives that I resent... to put American soldiers in harm's way and to do everything to change the subject so that Republicans can keep control of the House."
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"Our resistance to this war should be our resistance to profit at the cost of human life. Because that is what these drums beating over Iraq are really about. This is about business."
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"Most people in this world are against the war. The leaders of my country do not seem to care about what people of the world think. They really want this war."
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The non-violent Robbins said to the journalist who interviewed Sarandon's Republican mother, "If you ever write about my family again, I will [bleeping] find you and I will [bleeping] hurt you."
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To the Baseball Hall of Fame president: "You belong with the cowards and ideologues in a hall of infamy and shame."
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"I am sorry that you have chosen to use baseball and your position at the Hall of Fame to make a political statement," Robbins hypocritically wrote.
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"In the 19 months since 9-11, we have seen our democracy compromised by fear and hatred. Basic inalienable rights, due process, the sanctity of the home have been quickly compromised in a climate of fear. A unified American public has grown bitterly divided, and a world population that had profound sympathy and support for us has grown contemptuous and distrustful, viewing us as we once viewed the Soviet Union, as a rogue state."
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"A chill wind is blowing in this nation. A message is being sent through the White House and its allies in talk radio and Clear Channel and Cooperstown. If you oppose this administration, there can and will be ramifications."
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[Ryan]

He considers Bush a "fascist" and a co-conspirator (with Osama bin Laden) in deliberately "wrecking the American economy."
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[Ryan]

"He's embarrassing. He's not my president. He will never be my president."
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"Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant... I looked up Democrat. It's of the people, by the people, for the people."
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"We all need to take a deep breath and think about being a Bush daughter and having that cross to bear. I'd go out and have a couple of drinks too."
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[Ryan]

"Dr. Laura has a right to her opinion, but I think it's irresponsible of Paramount to not give equal time, at the very least, to a person with a more enlightened and contemporary perspective. I'm totally against wasting the airwaves giving visibility to a person who is clearly in dire need of compassion, education, and a good shrink herself."
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"We stand a chance of getting a president who has probably killed more people before he gets into office than any president in the history of the United States."
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"In the US it is not a good time for anybody to feel strongly about things that are not popular", Sarandon went on, "and if you are against the death penalty it's like being against a war. Your loyalties to the government are questioned if you are against it."
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"Let us find a way to resist fundamentalism that leads to violence. Fundamentalism of all kinds, in al-Qaeda and within our government. And what is our fundamentalism? Cloaked in patriotism and our doctrine of spreading democracy throughout the world, our fundamentalism is business."

"This is about business, the business of distracting American attention from Enron and Haliburton, the financial scandals that directly connect this administration to the heart of what is now wrong with the American economy."
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"How will the bombing of Baghdad, a city of five million, accomplish a regime change?"
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"Before our kids start coming home from Iraq in body bags and women and children start dying in Baghdad, I need to know, what did Iraq do to us?"
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"I'm tired of being labelled anti-American because I ask questions."
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"Now should I be quiet because I have information other people don't have? No."
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"Instead, our president has turned it [9/11] into one of the most divisive times since the Civil War."
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[Ryan]

It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily."
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"There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut."
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[Ryan]

"George W Bush is like a bad comic working the crowd, a moron, if you'll pardon the expression."
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Sheen declared of President Clinton: "I think he was probably the brightest President of the 20th century."
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"I think [Bush] would like to hand his father Saddam Hussein's head and win his approval for what happened after the Gulf War."
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"Don't invade Iraq. Inspections work; war won't."
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"By some demented form of logic, the men, women and children of Iraq are relegated to 'collateral damage' as the dogs of war slouch toward Baghdad."
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Q: When has it become criminal to express yourself in this country?

Sheen: Right now.

Q: Assess the Bush Administration.

Sheen: In order to understand this Administration it is helpful to have a background in [Alcoholics Anonymous's] Twelve Step, because it is real clear to those of us who understand the Twelve Step program that these are very dysfunctional times. We live in a very dysfunctional society, and this is a very, very dysfunctional Administration. The proven way for this Administration to keep power is to keep us all in fear. As long as we are afraid of the unknown and afraid of each other, he, or anyone like him, can rule. It's like they will take responsibility for protecting us. It's when we take back the responsibility for protecting ourselves that they get scared. I am amazed by the level of arrogance within the Administration.
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[Ryan]

"[Bush says] 'We're pursuing terrorists. No, George, you're not. You're a flake. Be serious. Override the Pentagon. Take casualties, if you've got the guts. But don't go starting another war with Iraq that could be far more devastating in its implications for us."
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"Bin Laden was completely protected by the oil companies in this country who told [President] Bush not to go after him because it would piss off the Saudis."
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"They [corporations] control culture. They control ideas. And I think the revolt of September 11th was about ‘F-- you! F-- your order!’"
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"We should look to (Castro) as one of the Earth's wisest people, one of the people we should consult."
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[Ryan]

"As we have learned in the past weeks, we cannot trust George W. Bush."
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"We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress."
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"We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities."
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"How could such a destructive man [referring to Pres. Bush] be so popular with the American people? ... Not only is he poisoning our air and water - he's poisoning our political system as well."
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"I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening..."
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"If the Republicans end up with control of the presidency, the Senate, the House of Representatives and the federal courts, there will not be any check on the power of the right wing. The result would be devastating for reproductive choice, the environment, civil liberties, Social Security and health care, as well as corporate accountability."

"Republicans are about protecting the corporations while Democrats are about protecting people."
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"And remember, this was a president [referring to George W. Bush] who was selected by the Supreme Court rather than the people."
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"[Republican control of the House has resulted in] Poison in the water, salmonella in the food, carbon dioxide in the air and toxic waste in the ground."
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"It used to be in politics that there was a certain amount of class and eloquence. The debate was civilized even though there were strong disagreements over deeply important questions. But, as usual, the Republicans have resorted to name-calling and mean-spiritedness."
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"The president is our leader, the figurehead of the country, a father figure. Are the 'children' supposed to follow his example? Are we in an era of trickle-down immorality, like trickle-down economics? The country sees their leader not telling the truth. These actions send a message that you don’t have to mean what you say, that you don’t have to care about other people, that you can do whatever you have to do or say whatever you have to say to get ahead. Is that the message we want to impart to our children? Is that the culture we want to live in?"
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[Ryan]

"How we dare even prate about democracy is beyond me. Our
form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale. It's far worse than anything that occurred in the Roman empire, until the praetorian guard started to sell the principate. We're not a democracy, and we have absolutely nothing to give the world in the way of political ideas or political arrangements. God knows, the mention of justice is like a clove of garlic to Count Dracula."

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"These people are for the most part rip-off artists. Notice that they’re all gas and oil men from Cheney, to the two Bushes; I think Rumsfeld also."

"And what this is really about is oil, and it’s Central Asian oil, which is what we’ve got our eye on. We do have practical motives every now and then. It’s not just for the sheer glory that we get into a war like the Afghanistan. Afghanistan is the entranceway to Central Asia and five republics that used to belong to the Soviet Union that are now the largest suppliers of gas, natural gas, and oil. He who gets his hands on that will really control the world for a while."
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"We still don't know by whom we were struck that infamous Tuesday, or for what true purpose. But it is fairly plain to many civil libertarians that 9/11 put paid not only to much of our fragile Bill of Rights but also to our once-envied system of government which had taken a mortal blow the previous year when the Supreme Court did a little dance in 5/4 time and replaced a popularly elected President with the oil and gas Bush-Cheney junta."

"The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions."
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"I don't see us winning the war. We have made enemies of one billion Muslims."

"As dumb as this administration is, they don't look ahead. They don't know where any countries are. They don't know how to make deals. They don't really know much about anything. There is no plan."

"Whatever Saddam has that might be atrocious - mustard gas, pox, viruses - we will ensure that he uses it."

"Now you have people [in Washington] who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil."

"The media [have] never been more disgusting in my lifetime. Every lie out of Washington - they're out there doing war dances."
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