“It was war, and in war the truth was almost always the first casualty.”
Vince Flynn book Executive Power
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“Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.”
2000-09, Our Duty Is to Remember Sichuan, 2009
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