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What a Difference a Year Makes

by David Kurtz
06.16.09 | 12:39 pm

You have to go all the way back to 2008 to find the same Republicans now voting against the new Afghanistan/Iraq war funding bill accusing some Democrats of not supporting the troops for voting against similar appropriations.

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