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Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that's their gift.

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Denzel Washington
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: December 28
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