>>BTW2 it's hard to see how you could have quadruple-checked without first having already triple-, without first having already double-, so most of your sentence was redundant.
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>>That's like saying a soldier was killed in Iraq today, bringing the total of dead to 1,005, it having previously been 1,004.
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>Impossible. I have never heard of a soldier being killed there. Only troops.
We've had this before. If only 1 squaddie dies you can't say "A troop died", so you must have heard other than that (Assuming there are days when only 1 American dies), even if it's "a member of the armed forces in Iraq"
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
