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Re: Not Saving Private Ryan.
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Date: 
Sun, 30 May 2004 04:40:43 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Thomas Stangl wrote:
   John wrote:

  
  
   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.

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.

Well, if they were sacrificed, then by whom to whom?

   HUGE difference, don’t try to pave it over in your rah-rah-Bush-can-do-no-wrong-in-Iraq-claptrap.

You know, pro-Bush folk would probably be a lot less “rah-rah” if the Left weren’t so virulently hateful of Bush as a person, much less as a politician.

JOHN



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(...) Again, this isn't new; it existed with Clinton, too, though the positions were often reversed, and I'd argue that there was much more "yeah, he's a slimeball sex fiend" admission on the Left during the Lewinsky matter than there is acceptance (...) (20 years ago, 30-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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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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