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HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015158

House Oversight Committee
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TRACK: I’ m telling you, those Iraq Veterans Against the War were real traitors at the Democratic convention. | learned that they had the nerve to be in full uniform, and they were chanting, “My buddy’ s in the foxhole with a bullet in his head--I called to get the medic but he’ s already dead.” But at our convention, just like the war in Iraq was a justifiable pre-emptive strike, so was the raid on the protesters before the convention began.

WILLOW: What happened? | was busy taking care of Trig.

TRACK: The police and the sheriff’ s department seized material that could’ ve been used to barricade roads, and spikes that could disable the delegates’ buses. They confiscated slingshots and buckets of gray water and urine. It’ s better to prevent using that stuff before it happens. They busted four people on suspicion of conspiracy to commit a riot, and detained dozens of others. They took boxes of pamphlets on free-speech laws in Minnesota, and booklets on how to protest legally.

WILLOW: That doesn’ t seem right. | was listening to the radio, and a pundint was talking --

TRACK: You mean pundit--

WILLOW: --a pundit, he was talking about keeping protesters out of

sight, they could only speak on P.A. systems in fenced-off, like cages, on

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