Tony Blair Cashes In On War Memoirs, Speaking


	Tony Blair Cashes In On War Memoirs, Speaking

papananook

1-12-2008 11:55 PM

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papananook says:

This Bush/Cheney poodle makes me ill. The blood on his hands is no less than Bush's.

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