Hilmar;

Thank you. I know better but allowed the pressure of my job to get to me. It helps to read what you write! :)

Tom


>Thomas, I just wanted to point out that the country name is "Iraq". "Iraqi" means "from Iraq"; the "i" being a common suffix, both in Arabic and Farsi, I believe, to indicate "from".
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>>It is all right to kill Americans but it has to be for the “right reason”!
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>>No one from a foreign nation may take the life of an American Service Person without serious consequences. How serious is a debatable issue. It depends upon the political climate.
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>>On an average year in the United States;
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>>17,000 killed by drunk drivers
>>About 30,000 killed by guns
>>About 100,000 are killed by doctors
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>>You can debate the actual numbers but the point is that not much is done about it. It seems all right for Americans to kill each other. When our service people are involved in such statistics while overseas, that is an entirely different matter.
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>>Considering everything involved it might be safer to be a member of the United States military in Iraqi than living in a place such as Oakland, California.
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>>Tom