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Saddam's in the slammer, so why are we on orange? --------------------------------------------------------- Posted: December 30, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 David H. Hackworth Almost daily we're told that another American soldier has sacrificed life or limb in Iraq. For way too many of us – unless we have a white flag with a blue star in our window – these casualty reports have become as big a yawn as a TV forecast of the weather in Baghdad. Even I – and I deal with that beleaguered land seven days a week – was staggered when a Pentagon source gave me...