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To: Suma who wrote (27606)	8/31/2006 3:41:49 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 541997

Try 500 women,children and no men... in one day at Mai Lai... 500 doesn't equal millions. Even if it was 500 every weak from when our advisors first landed to when the last American soldier left Vietnam it still wouldn't be millions.

To: Suma who wrote (27606)	8/31/2006 3:52:56 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541997

When I read about a baby being slit open and or gutted I really see RED RED RED... so angry at mans inhumanity to one another. Suma, I was not addressing the inhumanity, which is considerable in all wars, only your suggestion that there was some defect in Tim's response. Tim is a direct and literal guy reacting to hyperbole, at least that's how I read his response. It's hard to have a useful discussion with hyperbole sloshing about. Objecting to the hyperbole of an assertion does not imply lack of sympathy with the underlying material being conveyed, only the unhelpful exaggeration. I had an experience yesterday on another thread where I questioned what took for an exaggerated figure in a company's ad and was bombarded by people apparently thinking that I was hostile to the company's program even though I never indicated any such thing. Faulting intemperate expression is often confused with faulting the source of the expression or the subject being expressed. More faulty thinking.