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To: John Carragher who wrote (172323)	7/4/2006 9:39:52 AM
From: Constant Reader	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793719

Where is this going when you single out a few incidents and try to apply the situation to worry its like a disease that will overtake all the military in Iraq? While there undoubtedly are those who think that, they are on the fringes of rational thought. Are we discussing the rape situation or are these posts really about the war and the administration. That would depend on whose posts are you talking about.

To: John Carragher who wrote (172323)	7/4/2006 10:23:05 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793719

one can express distress , it is the bringing of it to extremes that one has to wonder where this is going....Are we discussing the rape situation or are these posts really about the war and the administration. I think that what occurred between the initial expression of distress and the "extreme" you cited is key. Had the original expression of distress not been met with such a negative barrage, particularly a barrage that inferred and took umbrage regarding the broader "war and the administration" when that was not necessarily implied, then the subsequent extreme would not have been provoked. Some people are inherently extremists. Other people aren't, but most of us can escalate into extreme language by, er, overstimulation. These things spiral. You can't blame the resulting extreme expression solely on the writer of that expression, IMO.