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H2O Man

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8. Right.

Reply to PoindexterOglethorpe (Reply #3)

Sat Dec 27, 2025, 01:17 AM

Dec 2025

One would hope. Being young at that time, I remember thinking that. But then came Reagan-Bush and Iran-Contra. Then bush/Cheney, and the Plame scandal. It was as if the hard lessons of Watergate were forgotten.

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