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Mr. President, are you lying to us?
The Gazette Opinion Staff
Oct. 24, 2012 1:20 pm
Please, Mr. President, I truly need your reason for insisting a 15-minute movie trailer could cause Muslim extremists to kill our people (in Libya) and attempt more murders all over the Muslim territory.
I understand movies can have a lot of power and influence. During World War II at age 16, I remember watching the movie titled, “From the Halls of Montezuma to the Shores of Tripoli.” I immediately lied about my age and was sworn into the Marines. But, Mr. President, that movie lasted for a couple of hours, not a dinky 15 minutes.
Mr. President, are you lying to us? Don't you realize that many of those Muslim folks really hate us just because?
Mr. President, are you a Muslim extremist sympathizer? If it takes a movie to start murdering other humans, the one Hitler watched preceding the killing of 7 million of his own people must have been an all nighter.
Robert Batey
Ret. Marine Corps.
Mount Pleasant
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