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TwilightGardener

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12. His statement makes no sense. Is he lamenting that not enough troops are deploying

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Sun Jan 8, 2012, 07:19 PM

Jan 2012

and getting legs blown off or killed? Is he saying that Afghanistan and Iraq were both mistakes--mistakes that MORE families should have sacrificed for? WTF is he saying?

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Romeny: I find it extraordinary that a very few number of families are paying the price of freedom. [View all] RandySF Jan 2012 OP

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His statement makes no sense. Is he lamenting that not enough troops are deploying TwilightGardener Jan 2012 #12

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I think Huntsman noted that today. RandySF Jan 2012 #15