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Originally posted by krunchyfrogg:
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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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E-mail: bobherb@nytimes.com
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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. [/QUOTE]While there is something to what you say about the NYT, your dismissiveness is way to casual and you make no structured argument against what the article says. Dismissiveness of the source is easy. It's the same as me telling everyone that Krunchfrogg's opinions have an overtly conservative bent, that it is rumoured that he is a war lover and hates Iragii's, and that people everywhere should take what he just said (and most things you read) with a grain of salt.
See whay I mean - what I just said is as great a pile of tosh as what you just said. The argument just doesn't stack up ole bean [img]smile.gif[/img] .
[ 05-07-2005, 09:08 AM: Message edited by: Davros ]