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Any questions anyone might have had about the religious fantasies and hallucinations behind those who launched aggressive war on Iraq can be put to rest with the publication of Donald Rumsfeld’s pretty memos<\/a> to George Bush II.<\/p>\n

Our foreign policy was determined in part at least by George Bush’s reaction to carefully selected Biblical verses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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