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Gunner
 
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Default Commentary: Death by 1,000 cuts in Iraq

On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 08:51:26 -0500, Jake Nichols
wrote:

On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 16:20:26 -0700, "Dan"
wrote:


A military has few compunctions about firing on armed
combatants, but is more reluctant about doing so on unarmed
civilians.




Kent State University


And in the middle of the Turbulent 60s, with bomb throwers, mass
riots, takeovers and thrashing hundreds of universities, the only one
you can come up with is Kent State?

Four Dead in Ohiiiooo!

Sounds pretty ****ing reluctant to me.

Gunner

"The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better,
on average, than the citizens of Baltimore.
True, you can sit outside in Paris and drink little cups of coffee,
but why this is more stylish than
sitting inside and drinking large glasses of whiskey I don't know."
-- P.J O'Rourke (1989)
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