>>Steven wrote:
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>>>Quite a few of the troops have said to me that this isn't what they were
>>>expecting.
>>
>>They joined the damned Marines, fer Chrissake. What did they
>>expect? A sit-down dinner with a string quartet accompaniment?
>>
>>Doug
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>
>To liberate an oppressed people from a cruel dictator...
Well that reminds me of what Anatol Lieven said when I interviewed him, characterizing the profound ignorance of everyone from Rummy to Hitch: "These people wouldn't be fit to run a kebab stand in Iraq."
Doug