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Since Bush Got in office Crude Oil and WAR started he dont Want our troopes come home He wants them to stay there and Die Bush has to get out of Office Since he got in Oil and Gas
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The back story has Washington D.C. destroyed by a nuclear blast and the States going into complete turmoil, presumably with the explosion has gone the entire governing bodies of American Government and the armed forces, except that is for the troopes and weaponry which now falls into the hands of the secuclar States.
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Ceiling Cat have unleshed minions aganst u! u must send troopes!
New kitteh? Black u sez? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Masse in the Church, and heard what a wonderful Feather they should see in the after noone, returned in all hast to their houses, where one telling this newes to another, and gossip with gossip consulting theron; they made the shorter dinner, and afterward flocked in maine troopes to the Castle, contending who shold first get entrance, such was their devotion to see the holy feather.
The Decameron 2004
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This pray being gathered out of sundry places thereabout, and being led away as farre as the citie of Belinas, which they call C鎠aria Philippi, the Turkes which dwelt at Damascus, together with the Saracens inhabitants of the countrie perceiuing this, flocking on all partes together by troopes, pursued Hughes companie to rescue the pray, and passed foorth as farre as the mountaines, ouer which Hughes footemen did driue the pray.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Shauaran, where (as they lodged in their tentes) they were greatly molested with strange troopes of sholcaues or foxes, which were so busie with them that they tooke their meate and victuals out of their lodgings, and deuoured to the bare bones in one night a mighty wilde Bore that was sent vnto them for a present from the gouenour of the countrey.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Many times (when the Winter is very hard and extreeme) the beares and woolfes issue by troopes out of the woods driuen by hunger, and enter the villages, tearing and rauening all they can finde: so that the inhabitants are faine to flie for safegard of their liues.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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In the meane space Hugh of Tabaria being sent for, accompanied with the troopes of two hundred horsemen and foure hundred footmen, inuaded the countrey of the Grosse Carle called Suet, very rich in gold and siluer most abundant in cattle frontering vpon the countrie of the Damascenes, where hee tooke a pray of inestimable riches and cattle, which might haue suffised him for the besiege of
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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When once provok'd doth throwe theyr owne troopes runne.
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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Bothe sente, as troopes of wolves, to sletre felle;
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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