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  • This was done at the Behest of Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld.

    Former CIA chiefs call on Obama to stop interrogation probe 2009

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    OpEdNews - Quicklink: At Lobbyist's Behest, FDA Pushes for Drug Marketing Loophole 2008

  • VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Ozone Rules Weakened at Bush\'s Behest'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'EPA scrambles to justify action made clearly to placate the energy and automotive industry lobbyists.

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Ozone Rules Weakened at Bush's Behest 2008

  • Though in their behalf, the government itself is nothing more than an old fashioned Extortion Murder racket, this one run at the Behest of the nuclear war fighting international members of the Merchant Murder class.

    Did Bush Admin Order Tillman Murdered to Silence Him? 2007

  • Though in their behalf, the government itself is nothing more than an old fashioned Extortion Murder racket, this one run at the Behest of the nuclear war fighting international members of the Merchant Murder class.

    Did Bush Admin Order Tillman Murdered to Silence Him? 2007

  • Though in their behalf, the government itself is nothing more than an old fashioned Extortion Murder racket, this one run at the Behest of the nuclear war fighting international members of the Merchant Murder class.

    Did Bush Admin Order Tillman Murdered to Silence Him? 2007

  • Caleb and their company came first to aspy, how they might win the land of Behest.

    The Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Beautiful and awful, the feeling of a Heavenly Behest, of Duty God-commanded, over-canopies all life.

    Paras. 25-49 1909

  • And then this bird said to S. Brandon: That it is twelve months passed that ye departed from your abbey, and in the seventh year hereafter, ye shall see the place that ye desire to come to, and all these seven years ye shall keep your Easter here with us every year, and in the end of the seventh year ye shall come into the land of Behest.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 7 1230-1298 1900

  • Behest tofore the gates of Paradise, whereas is ever day and never night, and they said all that the place is full delectable, for yet all their clothes smelled of that sweet and joyful place.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 7 1230-1298 1900

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