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LittleClarkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-21-06 09:15 PM
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Shit. It's going to work, isn't it.
A courier just came in to pick up some boxes and excitedly told me that he'd just heard on the radio that WMDs were found. I said they're old WMDs from before the first Gulf War. That didn't seem to phase him.

They don't remember the rationale for going to war in the first place. It was all about nuclear weapons aimed at the United States. Yellow cake uranium and all that. We knew the fucker had chemical weapons. No shit. That's all we heard about in the first Gulf War, the possibility that Saddam would use them on our troops. BIG revelation.

How many people are going to be stupid enough to buy this shit. Oh, we found the WMDs. Bush was right all along. Let's all support him again. :puke:
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Erika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-21-06 09:17 PM
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1. They'll end up looking as silly Bushbots.
If they check the story. If they don't, they'll still be silly Bushbots. No loss.
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oasis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-22-06 01:40 AM
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41. To think, they sprang Rove and this is all that he could come up with.
:eyes:
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NYCGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-21-06 09:18 PM
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2. It didn't work the last time they pulled it. NT
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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-21-06 09:18 PM
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3. At Least 36% Will
but let's hope that the majority will remain unmoved by the bullshit story about pre-gulf war mustard and sarin shells that are NOT WMD'S as they are not weapons of mass destruction by a long shot.

I'd hate to be mustard gassed, and sarin, if it were still usable, is very deadly, and could kill a lot of people, but not a WMD

nuclear weapons are WMD's

a huge shell of sarin, maybe

a biological weapon that worked, yes

mustard gas? no
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uppityperson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-21-06 09:19 PM
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4. no, some will be decieved and then get angry about the deception
some will believe and remain true believers, but swingers will get re-angrified about the deception.
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Erika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-21-06 09:22 PM
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9. good point. Thanks.
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Thickasabrick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-21-06 09:19 PM
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5. So far this non-story is not on the WP, NYT, or CNN Sites. They
know it is bullshit and aren't going along with Faux (hopefully). If this continues and they ignore little Ricky's latest stunt, I will have a whole new respect for them. They will still need work - but it's a start.
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Armstead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-21-06 09:20 PM
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6. It's only going to work on those who are already true believers.
Edited on Wed Jun-21-06 09:20 PM by Armstead
Some people might say: "See, They found 'em. I knew Bush was right all along."

But they're the ones who felt tht way all along.

I think after the 30th false alarm over the last three years, most peopel aren;t buying that old tune anymore.
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-21-06 09:21 PM
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7. Yes when you get excited over a can of raid and a fly swatter, you'll get
excited over just about anything.
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Ahpook Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-21-06 10:15 PM
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22. Isn't that the fucking truth
I was wondering when they would pull this out.

Too easy....
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AX10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-21-06 09:21 PM
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8. The 33% core base are the only one's who will believe this shit.
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WePurrsevere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-21-06 09:27 PM
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12. After Colbert's WH gig I will always tend to think of them as "backwash".
n/t
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flyarm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-21-06 09:24 PM
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10. ahhh do you remember the rose bush?????????? yes the rose bush
Edited on Wed Jun-21-06 09:25 PM by flyarm
that some damn thing was found that looked like a fishing reel...and the bushbots said it was the trigger or some such bullshit to to a nuclear bomb??

nope it was crap..

or how about the botox found in an iraq refrig...yeah..that was a wmd..alright!!

hell at least one persons face would have been saved with that wmd!!

do any of you remember * in poland saying we found the chemical trucks..when it was in the polish papers and all over the eu papers they were weather balloon trucks sold to saddam by "BRITIAN"??

THE ENTIRE EUPROPEAN CONTINENT KNEW * WAS A LYING SAC OF SHIT..

BUT THE DUMB AMERICANS..NOPE..THOSE THAT WATCH TV NEWS ARE THE DUMBEST!

more bullshit ..and this will piss people off more when they think about it..or david kay comes on some news cast saying ...an unadultersted..bullshit!~

fly
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teknomanzer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-21-06 10:08 PM
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19. Need to check my fridge...
I might have some botulin toxin in there too. Must remember to go to the grocery store to pick up some yellow cake mix and aluminum tubes (filled with fermented barley water.)
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flyarm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-21-06 10:59 PM
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30. well stay out of my garage..my garden stuff will set off the wmd meter!!
i have some mean petunia's...and crepe myrtles!!..and ohhhh the rose bushes...my garage is toxic with all the goodies for flowers!!

what was it our homegrown terrorist used ..remember Timothy McVeigh...garden stuff..( fertilizer??)

whoa..my garden is a treasure trove!!

all new fertilizer!!

wtf?????????

so much bullshit... we should grow it..it would sell well with ditto heads and bushbots!

fly

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teknomanzer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-21-06 11:23 PM
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33. All those nitrates are going to get you into trouble flyboy.
You are being monitored.
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pa28 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-22-06 01:57 AM
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42. Right, and the ten year old shell with "sarin".
You know; the one rigged as a roadside bomb that initially tested positive for the chemical.

For a whole news cycle on Faux it was "WMD's found!"

:rofl:

It will be funny to see who, if anyone, is buying this time.
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sandnsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-21-06 09:26 PM
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11. They recycle this story every month or two
Lies are the only thing they believe in recycling.
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blogslut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-21-06 09:31 PM
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13. No, it's not 'going to work'
Edited on Wed Jun-21-06 09:46 PM by blogslut
Over 2500 American soldiers are dead, tens of thousands are disabled and the coalition of the willing is taking the last train for the coast. Possibly hundreds of thousands of Iraqis are dead. Their infrastructure is practically non-existent, their 'democratic government' can't get off the ground and the insurgency/resistance rages on.

Meanwhile our economy is running on the fumes from corporate profits while workers have less money in the bank than they did since the depression. Our jobs are being outsourced daily. Gas is at all-time highs. The stock market rides a rollercoaster every week. Our polticians and our press refuse to listen to the will of the people and the people have practically lost faith in the ability of their government to protect them from anything - be it hurricane or terrorist cell.

A bunch of household chemicals, dissipating in some rusty tubes, simply won't cut it this time.

edit: spelling n stuff
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LittleClarkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-21-06 09:46 PM
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15. I hope not. Meanwhile another freeper rushes up here at work
Edited on Wed Jun-21-06 09:47 PM by LittleClarkie
all excited at the news.

I dread going anywhere in this freeper town of mine for the next couple of days. The freepers are all going to have little Dubya smirks on their ugly little mugs.

Aw, shoot me, Jesus. I don't wanna live. :banghead:
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blogslut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-21-06 09:54 PM
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16. Remind them
Edited on Wed Jun-21-06 09:55 PM by blogslut
of the song they played when the Dubya admin started this war dance:

Mushroom Cloud

Saddam was trying to buy yellowcake to blow us up. Then, they put on the next record:

And Chemical Weapons Too-ooh

Only they couldn't find any viable chemical weapons either, so they changed the beat and played:

Bring Freedom to the Iraqi People

Ask those freepers exactly what was found? When they answer WMD, ask them what kind of WMD? Ask them if the stuff that was found is now worth all this death? Also, ask them how long they want us to keep paying for this war? Ask them what any of this has to do with 911 and protecting us from terrorism?

Or, ignore them. :)
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tjwash Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-21-06 09:38 PM
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14. WHAT!!??
Edited on Wed Jun-21-06 09:47 PM by tjwash
Did someone actually say that they found WMD in Iraq? I mean, not the ones we've been dropping all over them, but the ones Moron Bush lied like a motherfucker about?

Fuck. Every time I think I've seen the dumbest shit-for-brains pukewad RepubliKKKlansman, another one slimes his way out from under a rock and takes his fucking pea-brain out and shows the entire world.

:argh:

Edit: I see by the article, that they are claiming old chemicals. :eyes:

I thought Saddam used those all up when he blasted the Kurds. Remember them? The same Kurds that Bush Senior promised to help overthrow Saddam, and when they rose up, and he blasted them into oblivion with the chemical weapons that Reagan sold him well, too bad for them. :puke:

Saddam was a bad guy, but we created him, just like we propped up those Central American dictators so that we could have allies against the frightful Reds. You can't go tinkering with the global political landscape and then cry foul when your Frankenstein monster goes off the tracks.

Santoroms hubris is appalling. What a punk.


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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-21-06 09:59 PM
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17. um no it's not going to work, 500 pre 91 gulf war munitions does not
a rational make for over 2500 soldiers dying.
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goodhue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-21-06 10:01 PM
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18. no, not going to work
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Roland99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-21-06 10:10 PM
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20. This, too, shall pass. Just like the last 3 dozen or so "discoveries"
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Marr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-21-06 10:12 PM
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21. The guy could only have heard it on Fox, and if he's still watching Fox-
he's one of the 29% backwash, and he'll never acknowledge the fact that his fuhrer lied to him. Never.
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LittleClarkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-21-06 10:16 PM
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23. Radio. He heard it on the radio
But then again, around here, he could have been listening to Hannity on the damn radio.
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Marr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-21-06 10:27 PM
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26. Meh, same difference.
AM Radio is filled with Fox News content, if not actual Fox News personalities.

Anyway, they've played this game already and it only made people angry when they realized they were lied to.
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dysfunctional press Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-21-06 10:22 PM
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24. first i've heard of this story...
do you have a link...?

what wmd's were found where?

i went to cnn.com, and even drudge...but i didn't see anything about it.
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LittleClarkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-21-06 10:31 PM
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27. Can you stomach Fox News
Edited on Wed Jun-21-06 10:39 PM by LittleClarkie
Their website has it. And the AP just came out. Let me go find you a link.

On edit: here ya go.


http://www.kaj18.com/Global/story.asp?S=5063004
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dysfunctional press Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-21-06 10:40 PM
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28. absolutely not.
i never pay then ANY attention...i can't understand why anyone would even watch them.
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LittleClarkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-21-06 10:42 PM
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29. Here's an AP link:
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Harper_is_Bush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-21-06 10:23 PM
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25. Fuck no. Look at the media. Google "wmd". This is a joke.
Edited on Wed Jun-21-06 10:23 PM by Harper_is_Bush
That courier is VERY stupid. People will pay attention to the reality of this, and already the media is disseminating it for what it is.

edit: when you google "wmd" switch to latest news.

It's all fringe news, and FOX.
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PatrioticLeftie Donating Member (909 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-21-06 11:04 PM
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31. I think this may all be part
Of Bush's "good week". They're trying to spur support for the Asshat again.
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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-21-06 11:07 PM
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32. It's time to turn this around once and for all.
Call Fox News Propagandist and Liars. This is a weak appeal to raise his numbers. Find the hook, that will simply say, "You people are certainly white trash for believing this lame shit."
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oasis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-22-06 12:16 AM
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38. Bush is not in town to comment. Rove cooked up the whole thing.
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Straight Shooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-22-06 12:04 AM
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34. If anyone tells me in an excited voice that "they found WMD!" I will say
... Pull my finger.

Might as well have fun with them, although some may consider it unkind to taunt the feeble-minded. :evilgrin:
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LittleClarkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-22-06 12:06 AM
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35. I've got a couple answers lined up
1. The Pentagon has already disavowed Santorum's statement.

2. We didn't go to war over 15 year old mustard gas.
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Robbien Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-22-06 12:09 AM
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36. Serious answers won't work with them, just sell them a couple of bridges
or tell them about the moon being made of green cheese.
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-22-06 12:14 AM
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37. It's like selling week-old bread
The really stupid people will fall for it, but not for long.
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RUMMYisFROSTED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-22-06 12:19 AM
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39. Like dandelions.
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pa28 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-22-06 01:37 AM
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40. They found that old can of mace from 1991?
Edited on Thu Jun-22-06 01:37 AM by pa28
Well, just in time for w's new P.R. offensive. It'll be fun to watch the media 'hos peddling themselves for shamefully low rates in the morning.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-22-06 02:22 AM
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43. idiot Fox fans ALREADY believed WMD were found
they're just preaching to the choir
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Scriptor Ignotus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-22-06 11:10 AM
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44. they already believe it on FR
although there are a few dissenters.
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LSK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-22-06 11:16 AM
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45. has anyone found the REAL report that was released??
All I keep seeing is the "summary" from people who have "seen" it.
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dave123williams Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-22-06 01:47 PM
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46. Yeah ; shocker- foxnews.com is leading with the story...

Looks to me like a coordinated desperation move, if Santorum says it, then it's immediately discredited *on fox news*, then their echo-chamber picks it up.
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obreaslan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-22-06 02:01 PM
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47. "FOX News Debunks Santorum's WMD Claim"
http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/20060622_fox_news_santorum_wmd/

Apparently FOX doesn't even believe the report....
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