“President Bush withdrew from the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty. Good I say, global stability was getting to be a pain in the ass.”

—  Maddox

Bush: making political satirists obsolete since 2000 http://maddox.xmission.com/limits_to_freedom.html
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