Mr Vasquez, in office from 2005 to 2010, said he had weighed a war option amid a dispute with Argentina over a pulp mill on their border.

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Nijinsky has the best statistical record in terms of big races but did not have as good opponents as Mill Reef, who I personally vote the best post-war British Racehorse.

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The merest suspicion that they are going soft on the war, or are trying to use it for partisan advantage, would be grist for Mr DeLay's mill.

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