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To: cake_crumb
Let's face it. Most of these media people are probably scared spitless and never seen real battle. Hyperbole is going to rule.
173 posted on 03/23/2003 8:43:30 PM PST by Paraclete
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To: Paraclete
Let's face it. Most of these media people are probably scared spitless and never seen real battle. Hyperbole is going to rule.

To be fair, most of the soldiers they're with had never seen real battle, either. But the soldiers have trained for it for months or years, not to mention having had that time to steel themselves for the possibility of real battle. The reporters have not -- it's a huge shift in reality for them.

191 posted on 03/23/2003 8:49:35 PM PST by r9etb
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To: Paraclete
"Let's face it. Most of these media people are probably scared spitless and never seen real battle. Hyperbole is going to rule."

How true.

254 posted on 03/23/2003 9:44:24 PM PST by cake_crumb (UN Resolutions = VERY expensive, very SCRATCHY toilet paper.)
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