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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?
By Mark Benjamin and Christopher Weaver

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  • Friday, May 9, 2008 05:46 AM

    Drop the Thesaurus and put your hands up!!!

    Yeah.. you lost me with the pomposity by page two. Really, "hors de combat"?!?... tautology?!?... nebulous?!? who actually uses these? I know chicks dig guys who use big words, but try "out of combat", logic, and vague... they will work quite nicely. Here a pair for the authors "sesquipedalian" and "ostentatious."

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