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McLure monitored the American media for the BJR and reports: "In West Virginia, Charleston Gazette columnist Don Surber took issue with those who blamed the London attacks on the Iraq war. 'Those who say Britain was attacked for liberating Iraq get it only half-right, which means completely wrong,' he wrote. 'The terrorists want to break the British will. If anything, the British doubled their resolve.' Those sentiments were echoed in the opinion columns of many regional newspapers located in the heart of the country - what America's coastal elitists refer to derisively as 'flyover land'. 'What if the terrorist attackers in London a few days ago had been able to use biological, chemical or nuclear weapons, killing many, many more people than were viciously and tragically murdered?' wondered Tennessee's Chattanooga Times Free Press. 'How can anyone suggest U.S. retreat or surrender? Our only acceptable option is to defeat our terrorist enemies.'"
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