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Thursday TOON Roundup 3- Afghanistan (Original Post)
n2doc
Mar 2012
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lunatica
(53,410 posts)1. Why is anyone shocked that horrific things happen in wars?
War itself is already a horrific thing. There's nothing glorious or glamorous or redeeming about it. Nothing.
RC
(25,592 posts)2. Dead is Dead
And it is still US doing it.
zbdent
(35,392 posts)4. didn't like it under Bush, don't like it under Obama ...
same with torture ... once we admitted it, we lost the "high road" ...
Why then, does it not surprise me that someone "goes off the reservation" (really? with the worldview as broadcast daily on AFN with the GOP blessing, and the bloated one's voice?) and kills a bunch of (substitute current slur; during Vietnam, it was "gooks" ...?
zbdent
(35,392 posts)3. on #4 ... we might not have been in there "still" ...
had the "previous driver" actually run down that guy who crashed into the towers ... like he said "Wanted - Dead or Alive"
Dyedinthewoolliberal
(15,577 posts)5. Thanks!