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To: blam

if they shoot dead insurgents

Shouldn't that be: 'shoot insurgents dead' ??

5 posted on 04/29/2006 7:08:21 PM PDT by technomage (NEVER underestimate the depths to which liberals will stoop for power.)

To: technomage

That's Brit-speak. Kind of like when we report an accident victim is in "a" hospital, they report that the victim is "in hospital".

13 posted on 04/29/2006 7:12:43 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Carry Daily, Apply Sparingly.)

To: technomage

if they shoot dead insurgents

Shouldn't that be: 'shoot insurgents dead'

If they are prosecuted for shooting dead insurgents, just imagine how much trouble they would be in if they shot the live insurgents dead. ;-)

66 posted on 04/30/2006 11:22:51 AM PDT by Polybius

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