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Comfortably_Numb

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8. McNamara stuck to his bullshit excuses up to the day he dies. Watch "The Fog of War." None of it was his fault,to hea

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Wed Apr 30, 2025, 02:40 PM

Apr 30

r him tell it. Justifications to his grave. I hope he and Henry Kissinger are trapped in each other’s dutch oven for eternity in hell for both of them.

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