Failure to get this leads to a completely muddle-headed analysis of what has gone wrong.

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Last year alone Guantanamo detainees received more than 14, 000 cards, the vast majority from muddle-headed well-wishers and sympathizers.

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Our main doubts about Mr Obama have to do with the damage a muddle-headed Democratic Congress might try to do to the economy.

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" And he even went so far as to urge "Leo" to help him "expose muddle-headed policy when we see it or force the administration's hand to go in the right direction, if possible.

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"Americans have gone muddle-headed, " snorts Liu, now 84.

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We have reason to fear that the United States government is poised to follow Britain's disastrous course - further compounding the muddle-headed thinking among leaders across the country about Shariah and the threat it poses.

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Finally, in his eagerness to condemn American support for democracy and human rights as a muddle-headed attempt to impose alien values on foreigners, Mr McDougall seems curiously uninterested in political developments around the rest of the world.

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But, as policy, it is a wrong-headed muddle.

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