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Dealing with the moslems

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Submitted by Doug Corrigan (United States), Feb 13, 2009 at 07:19

... It's more than likely that democracy may have to be suspended at times (much as Abraham Lincoln did during the American Civil War and GW Bush did during the iraq war), in order to effectively deal with the enemy. Sweet words have never been shown to be effective when fighting a fire.


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