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How is it ironic that someone to help civilian casualties got killed in a bombing?
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HemlockGrey wrote:It seems to me that the chief reason for posting this was to point out how stupid the DU is, as if we didn't already know that.
Let him think he's clever.
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I know it is considered bad maners to bad mouth dead people in news reports, thus people say nice things about them or go on about how tragic blah blah blah but how the hell is it 'ironic' that someone who dedicated her life to help wartorn people *thus being in a war zone* get killed in a war zone?
They say, "the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots." I suppose it never occurred to them that they are the tyrants, not the patriots. Those weapons are not being used to fight some kind of tyranny; they are bringing them to an event where people are getting together to talk. -Mike Wong

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Illuminatus Primus wrote:How is it ironic that someone to help civilian casualties got killed in a bombing?
I assume he was referring to the fact that she was taking a poll to try and determine the number of civilian casualties when she herself became a civilian casualty.
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Master of Ossus wrote:
Illuminatus Primus wrote:How is it ironic that someone to help civilian casualties got killed in a bombing?
I assume he was referring to the fact that she was taking a poll to try and determine the number of civilian casualties when she herself became a civilian casualty.
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SPOOFE wrote:Obviously, this is the fault of all those evil Repugnicans, because the Middle East was a perfectly safe and stable region before we went in to steal all that sweet, sweet Iraq Juice.
I'm pretty fucking pissed about that because this fucking juice just keeps on getting more expensive, get the fucking prices down to like $15 a barrel and the US can steamroll the whole middle east for all I care.
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