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Re: Not Saving Private Ryan.
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Sat, 29 May 2004 16:28:13 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur wrote:
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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--
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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.
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You should signal your turns. What is “AWOL”? “A Winner Over Lefties?”
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that they didn’t fully earn it
themselves. But they have made sacrifices (the 1,000s of innocents killed),
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They did not make sacrifices; they were “sacrificed”.
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Calloused and insensitive semantics. Par for the course.
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Many of us have yet to
be convinced that they died for democracy.
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Oh really. And what would it take to convince you of that? The safe $$$ is
on nothing; nada; nichts.
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Their soon to be installed CIA PM
does not help win that argument.
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LOL PERFECT! You are already envoking the “CIA puppet” rhetoric. Good form!
So predictable.
JOHN
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Not Saving Private Ryan.
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| (...) 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.
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| (...) 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.
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| (...) 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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