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Iraq's Maliki Government Requested US Air Strikes - Denied

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Decatur Deb6/12/2014 3:49:16 pm PDT

re: #431 Ding-an-sich Wannabe

Not at all. He is, however, quasi-legitimate. But then, so is Putin.

So it looks like quasi-legitimacy is a lot more important than legitimacy, on any given Wednesday. Why don’t we just make the distinction between ‘legitimate’ and ‘nice’.