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<div>Dear Green Friends, </div>
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<div>Does everybody in America have a bad case of amnesia?</div>
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<div>I cannot believe that notorious 1983 picture of Donald Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam Hussein has not been posted a thousand places around the Web these last few days. </div>
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<div>(sigh) </div>
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<div>For what it's worth, see my "Diary" posted on the Daily Kos: </div>
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<div>Ford, Reagan, Rumsfeld and Saddam </div>
<div>by Alex Walker </div>
<div>Daily Kos Tuesday, January 2, 2006.</div>
<div><A target=_blank href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/1/2/10429/04482">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/1/2/10429/04482</A></div>
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<div>The same article has also been posted on the Indybay Web Page: </div>
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<div>Ford, Reagan, Rumsfeld and Saddam </div>
<div>by Alex Walker </div>
<div>SFBay Area Independent Media Center, Tuesday, January 2, 2006.</div>
<div><A target=_blank href="http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/01/02/18343161.php">http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/01/02/18343161.php</A> </div>
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<div>We'll be hearing this nonsense about that "nice guy" Gerald Ford all day today. In my article there is a link back to decent piece on that subject by, of all people, Christopher Hitchens. Among other things, Ford and Kissinger double-crossed the Kurds in Iraq also (is there any sleazy thing that has happened on the planet in the last thirty-eight years that Henry Kissinger didn't have a hand in?). </div>
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<div>Peace, </div>
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<div>Alex Walker </div>
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