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Old 06-08-2008, 01:15 PM   #5
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[NOTE: For those of you not familiar with Senator Landriew, she's the lady who did such a remarkable job in blaming everyone else for the Katrina response as the then Governor of Louisiana.]
Minor point of order: Landrieu is a *senator* from Louisiana. Kathleen Blanco was the governor.

It's borderline criminal that we are not willing to develop our own resources instead of allowing an ever-increasing amount of our wealth to go to countries with maniacal leaders who would just as soon see us dead, and are more than willing to use our transferred wealth against us.
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