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  • I left that night thinking, You cannot find common ground with governments that use police-state tactics.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • I left that night thinking, You cannot find common ground with governments that use police-state tactics.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • He had long been an ally of our country, a steady foe of Soviet expansion in the region, and a major supplier of oil to the West—but he also used police-state tactics we considered unacceptable.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • He had long been an ally of our country, a steady foe of Soviet expansion in the region, and a major supplier of oil to the West—but he also used police-state tactics we considered unacceptable.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • He had long been an ally of our country, a steady foe of Soviet expansion in the region, and a major supplier of oil to the West—but he also used police-state tactics we considered unacceptable.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • I left that night thinking, You cannot find common ground with governments that use police-state tactics.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • The evidence is overwhelming that the Thieu regime lost to its enemies because it was a corrupt and unpopular police-state, and its troops were far less motivated to fight than those of the other side.

    Fred Branfman: Hillary Clinton's Promoting Kissinger: An Insult to History Fred Branfman 2010

  • The evidence is overwhelming that the Thieu regime lost to its enemies because it was a corrupt and unpopular police-state, and its troops were far less motivated to fight than those of the other side.

    Fred Branfman: Hillary Clinton's Promoting Kissinger: An Insult to History Fred Branfman 2010

  • The evidence is overwhelming that the Thieu regime lost to its enemies because it was a corrupt and unpopular police-state, and its troops were far less motivated to fight than those of the other side.

    Fred Branfman: Hillary Clinton's Promoting Kissinger: An Insult to History Fred Branfman 2010

  • Our leaders are zionist, we live in a police-state dictatorship.

    It’s Hard to Be an Anti-Zionist Jew « Antiwar.com Blog 2009

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