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To: Dominic Harr; taxed2death
>>....ask some soldier sitting in a Vet hospital with no arms and legs pissing out of a tube if Iraq has been a cake walk.

>Ask that person, "Compared to the trench battles in WWI, did you have it easy in Iraq?"

And you think that they will answer, "Why yes, I did have it easy"?

139 posted on 11/02/2006 9:59:26 AM PST by drungus
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To: drungus
And you think that they will answer, "Why yes, I did have it easy"?

I *know* most would answer, "wow, compared to charging the German trenches in Verdun, I have it easy".

Well, the ones who know anything about Verdun, anyway.

142 posted on 11/02/2006 10:01:48 AM PST by Dominic Harr (Conservative: The "ant", to a liberal's "grasshopper".)
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To: drungus

"And you think that they will answer, "Why yes, I did have it easy"?"

My point exactly.

That's why I stated (post #20) it was an extremely poor choice of words.


187 posted on 11/02/2006 12:00:20 PM PST by taxed2death (A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
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