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Old 11-16-2010, 06:04 PM
 
Location: Flyover Country
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Just send the bill to Washington, where we can add it to the Defense budget, and no one will ever notice. A few million is nothing compared to the 600 billion spent annually

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In the House of Commons, the deal was greeted with a mixture of reluctant acceptance and outrage, with one Labour Party backbencher saying that “ordinary law-respecting people will be thinking the world’s gone mad,” and Dennis Skinner, another prominent Labour gadfly, shouting “money for old rope!”


Mr. Clarke, a 70-year-old lawyer who held many of the top cabinet posts in previous Conservative governments, admitted to a personal unease at the prospect of paying large sums of taxpayers’ money to individuals who were held for years in American custody under suspicion of being linked to terrorist plots against the United States.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/17/wo...n.html?_r=2&hp
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