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No Hoax?

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Sun, 10/18/2009 - 9:49pm

Cartoon by Hajo de Reijer

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Schmedlap

Sun, 10/18/2009 - 10:03pm

I nominate Hamid Karzai for next year's Nobel Peace Prize.

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