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To: PsyOp
You're having a good time on this thread, Aren't you?

Actually, I think this is a very sad thread.

BTW, thanks for the additions.

Sure.

The only thing I might suggest is some editing for brevity. Makes things easier, and therefore more likely to be read.

If a day had 48 hrs...

113 posted on 10/22/2003 11:05:12 AM PDT by miltonim
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To: miltonim
"good time" was not a reference to "uplifting" subject matter. You have obviously found a subject matter that is important to you and which like contributing to.

As for the brevity issue, I've found that when posts become too long they are not read. Try just posting what you feel is the most important paragraph or to and then the link as I have done. Bite size chunks are easier to digest. Also, long posts tend to limit the back and forth debate between posters.

Thanks.
115 posted on 10/22/2003 12:10:51 PM PDT by PsyOp ( Citizenship ought to be reserved for those who carry arms. - Aristotle.)
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To: All
Car bomb attacks kill 39 across Baghdad

AP | 10/27/03 | CHARLES J. HANLEY
Posted on 10/27/2003 8:40 AM EST by kattracks

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — Car bombers struck the international Red Cross headquarters and four police stations across Baghdad on Monday, killing about 40 people in a spree of destruction that terrorized the Iraqi capital on the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
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At the offices of the International Committee of the Red Cross in central Baghdad, witnesses said a suicide bomber drove an explosives-packed vehicle, apparently an ambulance, right up to security barriers outside the building at about 8:30 a.m. and detonated it, blowing down the Red Cross's front wall, devastating the interior and blowing shrapnel and debris over a wide area
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1008835/posts

122 posted on 10/27/2003 10:16:52 PM PST by miltonim
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