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how exactly do you know what motivations are in other people?
seriously--what puts you in a position to **know** how people sent to iraq feel about being there? do you really think that volunteering for the armed forces prevents those who do it from coming to the conclusion that they have been sent into harms way on absurd grounds?
do you really think that the chaos on the ground in iraq is somehow not something that would change anyone's mind about the situation there?
on what possible basis?
short of atual evidence and/or a rationale for your argument, it seems to me that yours is the patronizing position.
commentary on fallujah later, once it becomes cleare what went on. so far, it is pretty obvious that the claims about precision targeting were false, the number of civilian casualties quite high, and the publicly presented logic of the operation was more about the persistence of the apparent illusion that the americans are facing a vertically organized force in iraq that is at that level at least like their own than it was about anything to do with the actual operation.
it seems to me that the americans are headed down the path the french went down in algeria.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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