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Culture

The President's Wartime Service

Jesse Walker | 5.1.2007 11:01 AM

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At a press conference with President Bush, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe offered "apologies for the fact that" his country's wartime sex slaves "were placed in that sort of circumstance."

Bush's response: "I accept the prime minister's apology."

[Via Roderick Long.]

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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