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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-19-03 03:02 PM
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Notice how US bomb drops in Baghdad are ID'd as "distant explosions."
I've seen this phrase used in several stories about operation eisenhammer. I suppose it's meant to imply that they're very far away from anyone (other than "terrorists") who could be hurt.
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wryter2000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-19-03 03:04 PM
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1. Silly DUer
We're not bombing them. We're liberating them. </sarcasm>
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-19-03 03:06 PM
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2. Oops! My bad!
I guess that's why these freedomifiers are dropped--er, delicately placed?--so distantly.
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