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It's difficult for me to understand how it was possible to live under the Bush regime for eight years and then just roll over and do other things.

Aleksandar Hemon

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Aleksandar Hemon
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: September 9
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
City of Sarajevo
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Bush

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