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pilight

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  1. I heard all this four years ago. I also heard it eight years before that. Both times it was swiftly followed by an increase in the number of troops there and then a gradual reduction. The US mission in Afghanistan has never been clearly defined. Nobody knows what a US win there would entail. The entire operation has been a pointless waste of lives and resources.
  2. I have no objection to creating a panel to study expanding the court. SC justices have always had long tenures. Two of John Adams's three appointees served over 30 years. None of our current justices have served that long. Only Breyer and Thomas are over 20.
  3. He allowed his chief of staff to take bribes (the vicuña coat) He expanded Truman's lip service "Loyalty Order" to cover all federal employees and to include far more broad definitions of "disloyal" behavior and authorized the FBI to investigate allegations under it, thus giving Joe McCarthy free reign to ruin people's lives He put the full weight of the White House behind the fully corrupt Dixon-Yates plan He picked a VP who was already busy in 1952 trying to convince people he wasn't a crook He let the Soviets install a puppet government in Cuba, less than 100 miles from the continental US He stuck the first US fist into the Vietnam tar baby
  4. Martin Van Buren vs Jimmy Carter What a nothing contest this is Millard Fillmore vs Dwight D Eisenhower The Ike love continues to baffle me
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