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And this is why snipers traditionally have been sought from the ranks of soldiers who don't LIKE killing.

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And badges, probably...

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The guy has an army of fellow SEALs who want to testify against him. Fucking lock him up and throw away the key.

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OK, I made the mistake of reading this after finishing dinner. Thanks, Stephen.

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Open in private window, then from the menu, select Tools -> Web Developer -> Page Source. Search for:

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America's Finest.

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The kill-all-Mooslems vote.

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I was married to a violent alcoholic for 17 years. Didn't realize the nightly teeth grinding, nightmares and waking up in a cold sweat was PTSD. Until I read on the internet, PTSD ain't just for soldiers.

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I'll give that a shot!

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Maybe it will be Donald Jr.

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I always felt irritated by the line in that movie everybody remembers is Nicholson's "You can't handle the truth!" I reckon the best line by far is Tom Cruise's exit line, after Nicholson tells him bitterly, "Hope you're proud, junior. You weakened a country today. That's all you did."Cruise replies, "Don't call me junior, you son of a bitch. I'm an officer in the United States Navy, and I just caught a murderer."

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Even while George Walker Bush was saying it, before his army actually went into Iraq, I listened to his cotton-candy fantasy of how, once the monster Saddam was eliminated, a glorious wave of freedom and democracy would wash over the entire Middle East and everything would be jake forever, and I buried my head in my hands and said, sobbing, "There are people who actually believe this. Significant numbers of them, too. No no no no."I mean, it made "Iraq has weapons of mass destruction" and "Joe Wilson is a traitor" and "Saddam has links with Al-Qaeda" seem down-to-earth and solid.

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Bush's lies seem almost quaint in comparison with Trump's, even though Trump's lies haven't killed too many people, they are killing democracy. He's like a gigantic, metastasizing cancer on all that is decent and good.

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If he didn't exist and someone made a movie with a corrupt president like him in it, I would be like, "Give me a break, this is too crude and out of the ball park even for movies."

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Same here. I still watch Trump on TV and think to myself "sixty million people voted for this buffoon." How is it possible that this failed "businessman" and New York joke became POTUS?

I will hand it to Republicans, they did do a great job of smearing a woman who has never had so much as a speeding ticket, as "crooked."

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