Europe needs to get real on defence; Britain needs to get real on Europe
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12 February 2009
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Superb! And good questions too!
The whole republican witch hunt for what was a personnal mistake by a otherwise great man was shocking. The stuff that bush,cheney and co got away with in the last 8 years was shocking by comparision and the Democrats didn’t really provide any real opposition during those eight years. Hopefully Obama can get the USA back on track, the last 8 year have been a sad and terrible was by the republicans.