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Game preferable to the real thing

With the introduction of “Halo 3,” Bill Gates and Microsoft took a giant step toward negating all the great philanthropic work the Gates Foundation has done around the world. What a horrible travesty to be visited on our young folks. Haven’t we had enough violence, war and killing without this?

If “Halo 3” had to be developed, why wasn’t it done somewhere about 1999, given to Cheney, Bush and their neo-con cohorts in some padded cell where they could fantasize to their hearts’ content, so the world would be spared their greedy and evil machinations!

George C. Brown

Everett

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