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The Face on the Ace of Spades

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May 18, 2009
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When during the invasion of Iraq the United States government issued its famous deck of playing cards with the 52 arch villains of the Iraqi police state, Saddam Hussein's face adorned the Ace of Spades. If the Barak Obama administration in the United States wanted to engage in a similar public relations campaign for the real estate crisis, the top card…

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