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Friday, May 9, 2008 12:00 AM

Killing by the numbers

In 2007 elite U.S. snipers executed an unarmed Iraqi prisoner in cold blood. Have the insidious tactics that led to atrocities in Vietnam reemerged in Iraq?

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  • Friday, May 9, 2008 09:46 AM

    Vietnam =

    So what's new, nu? We've already have had more Mai Lais (sp?).

    close to each month, in the last 4 years (adding Afganistan) than our other preventable war in 'nam. And with a shrinking minority of future leaders, parents now being decimated, destroyed body and mind... And then talk about our next generations' future.

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