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What American soldiers are up against
dan
Oct 12 2003
08:05 am
“The U.S. military says there are an average of 12 to 25 attacks on their forces every day. ”
I didn’t realize it was that many.
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dan
Oct 10 2003
09:52 am
This conclusion to a NYT article about the recent bombing of a Baghdad police station really took me aback. What kind of society is it where people care more about the change in the pocket of a dying man than about the dying man?
“ After the bomb went off, many young men poured into the police compound, which was being refurbished. But instead of helping the wounded they began taking weapons from the soldiers and money from the dead and seriously wounded, said Mr. Resem, a wounded policeman.
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