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December 28, 2011 10:13 pm 5 comments Views: 39

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I can’t stand what we’ve done to these soldiers.

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  • tsisageya
    December 28, 2011
    10:57 pm

    Collateral damage is damage to people or property that is unintended or incidental to the intended outcome. The phrase is prevalently used as an euphemism for civilian casualties of a military action.

    Sorry, susie, but no.

  • tsisageya
    December 28, 2011
    10:59 pm

    Addendum: The feelings of guilt of a murderer does not fill me with compassion.

  • tsisageya
    December 29, 2011
    12:08 am

    “War on terror” is not war. It’s bullshit. Let’s not forget that.

  • dd
    December 29, 2011
    10:36 am

    and the ones who aren’t totally destroyed go to work as cops, and do to people here the same things they did in iraq – because it’s a drug war, and war is war!

  • Pragmatic Realist
    December 29, 2011
    12:20 pm

    What we do to the enemy we do to ourselves.

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