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Carl I. Hagen

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The old SV (Socialist Left Party) were useful idiots for the communists in Moscow. Today's SV are useful idiots for Saddam Hussein.
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In connection with the 2003 invasion of Iraq, published in Aftenposten (23 February 2003)

 
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