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To: thames_sider who wrote (98822)	5/22/2003 3:12:22 PM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Exaggerations in war, now thats a new phenomena. Americans sometimes behave badly too, but it doesnt change the nature of the enemy. I am not justifying lies but i am also not comparing them to mass murder that saddam seems to have been very good at. Isnt it a good thing Saddam is gone and the extent of the american "atrocities" was not saving Private Lynch but in lying about her rescue. In the rush to badhdad american troops werent able to shower for several weeks--is that cruel and inhuman punishment. Yesterday some commentators object to the torture of iraqis with American heavy metal music. My God what is this world coming too. mike@metallica.com

To: thames_sider who wrote (98822)	5/22/2003 10:14:40 PM
From: bela_ghoulashi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

So you're suggesting the men on the ground, the ones who went in, were simply play-acting and knew for a fact in advance that no one's life was really in danger? Or are you saying, sure, they couldn't have known this for certain, they couldn't have known they weren't really risking their own lives, or Jessica's, but since they really weren't, albeit unbeknownst to them as they thought they were, they deserve no honour? It's a sour grapes, back-seat driver, Monday afternoon quarterback story. Period.