psst ... Pat: check this out
fuck
You needn't keep writing "fxck" all the time. It's bloody annoying.
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Terrorist acts anywhere only serve to increase the fear in the American public's mind about terrorism. The anti-Bush US media (can't call it liberal no matter how hard I try) know this as well. Us über-libs up here in Canuckland have made it the main headline. That said, assisting Russia against Chechen rebels will not, as JPaw thinks, remove the stamp of 'occupiers' from Iraq. You'll have to actually stop occupying the country to do that. Of course, with a base on every border, and plenty of oil underground, that won't happen any time soon.