Carolina QuotesLet me see if I get this right. We need to borrow $10 billion from China, and then we give it to Musharraf, who is a military dictator, who overthrew an elected government. And then we go to war, we lose all these lives promoting democracy in Iraq. I mean, what's going on here?
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GOP debate on Fox News, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, January 10, 2008 [http://youtube.com/watch?v=Wuu-ElI56Mw
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