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Submitted by Big Frank, May 25, 2007 08:51

The government in South Vietnam was nothing but a puppet of the US without any popular support and plenty of corruption. The government of Iraq is about the same. We aren't fighting for freedom. And we aren't fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them over here. Let's cut our losses and get the hell out.

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