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Subject: 
Re: Not Saving Private Ryan.
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date: 
Sat, 29 May 2004 16:28:13 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur wrote:
   In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal wrote:

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Freedom most certainly isn’t free. This is the only thing I fear about the future fledgling Democracy of Iraq--

The attempts of the pro-war right to link George “AWOL” Bush’s illegal war in Iraq to WW2 never fail to leave me bemused.

You should signal your turns. What is “AWOL”? “A Winner Over Lefties?”

  
   that they didn’t fully earn it themselves. But they have made sacrifices (the 1,000s of innocents killed),

They did not make sacrifices; they were “sacrificed”.

Calloused and insensitive semantics. Par for the course.

   Many of us have yet to be convinced that they died for democracy.

Oh really. And what would it take to convince you of that? The safe $$$ is on nothing; nada; nichts.

   Their soon to be installed CIA PM does not help win that argument.

LOL PERFECT! You are already envoking the “CIA puppet” rhetoric. Good form! So predictable.

JOHN



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  Re: Not Saving Private Ryan.
 
(...) I can't remember Bush winning anything... certainly not medals in Vietnam. ;) (...) It is not semantics. There is a gulf between making a sacrifice and being sacrificed. Think about it. (...) The truth is becoming clearer day-by-day; your (...) (20 years ago, 29-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
  Re: Not Saving Private Ryan.
 
(...) Actually, in this case, you're wrong and (shudder), Scott is right. This is NOT semantics. "Made sacrifices" pertains to the Iraqi people as a whole. "Were sacrificed" pertains to the ones actually killed. HUGE difference, don't try to pave it (...) (20 years ago, 30-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: Not Saving Private Ryan.
 
(...) The attempts of the pro-war right to link George “AWOL” Bush’s illegal war in Iraq to WW2 never fail to leave me bemused. (...) They did not make sacrifices; they were "sacrificed". Many of us have yet to be convinced that they died for (...) (20 years ago, 29-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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