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Posted on Jan 2, 2006

The father of a soldier killed in Iraq calls his son’s death “wasted in a belief that democracy would grow simply by removing a dictator—a careless misunderstanding of what democracy requires.” Read the column

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By Shag, January 4, 2006 at 8:02 pm Link to this comment
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My cousin just left Iraq, a career marine who just loved the military. He’s st 17yrs., was going for 30, but said he’s done. He said it’s all a bullshit war, it’s all about money.
  He said the contractors are stealing the country blind and there’s no end in sight. He said the civil war has already started and he wants no more part of a mess we shouldn’t have started in the first place.

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