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To: Luis Gonzalez
I remember seeing that episode.

As a military officer myself, if some journalists had sacrificed American lives to get a story and if I had to decide whether to risk the lives of American troops to save their worthless lives, I would think back to what Admiral Horatio Nelson did at the Battle of Copenhagen.

At that battle, when Nelson's commanding officer ordered him by signal flag to break off his attack of the enemy, Nelson put his telescope to his blind eye and said, "I do not see the signal." My response would be, "I do not see the journalists."

29 posted on 10/16/2001 9:13:10 PM PDT by Polybius
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To: Polybius
If the media insist on acting up in Afganistan like they did in Vietnam, perhaps the sight of a few burly Marines or Rangers fingering their gutting knives might give the media idiots pause.
32 posted on 10/18/2001 11:15:58 PM PDT by Ban Draoi
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