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Watch how the propaganda unfolds once the bombing is over and the Americans are running Baghdad and their spin machine. There will be the discovery of Saddam's secret arsenal, probably in the basement of one his palaces.

John Pilger

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John Pilger
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: October 9
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