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... a top officer made wisecracks about the soldiers heading off to Iraq to kill some ragheads and burn some turbans.
"He laughed," Mr. Delgado said, "and everybody in the unit laughed with him."
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Personally, I think it's a good idea to hate someone you're being told to kill in a war. As for the gratuitous violence detailed in this
editorial, I don't think anybody can defend that.
I will say one thing, though, being a New Yorker: This is an editorial, not a report, written in the NY Times. Regardless of your own political opinions, it's a fact that the Times is an
extremely liberal-biased paper. And everybody knows that most liberals are against the war in Iraq (and many non-Libs too). Take this (and most things you read) with a grain of salt.