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Guess who called U.S. troops "thugs"

Imagine the stink if anyone with less military credibility than Gen. David Petraeus -- or worse, a Democrat -- had described American soldiers this way?
Gabriel Winant

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  • Friday, October 10, 2008 03:25 PM

    "That kind of neutralizes McCain using that "charge"."

    Not in the Bizzaro World that the Republicans inhabit.

    —siebecker Read siebecker's other letters

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