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Another Cropped Reuters Photo Deletes Another Knife - And a Pool of Blood

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Dark_Falcon6/06/2010 9:16:35 pm PDT

re: #816 swamprat

Viet vet explained to me that after he was forced to shoot a child who turned out to be a bomb delivery system, and after he found the fellow soldier (that had been screaming all night) dead, skinned alive, and mutilated,… why he, as a 17 year old kid, had no trouble at all dehumanizing the enemy and killing them quite happily. He did not use those words, and he said more, and I think he mourns the loss of his sanity.

Make no mistake, war is a nasty, nasty, business.

“War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.” -General William Tecumseh Sherman