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Len: Obviously you did not have a guy living with you in college named "Chuck the Marine", freshly back from Vietnam. He taught us younger guys a lot of things about drugs, war, etc. He was a ticking time bomb. Not sure what he was like prior to the war, but I can't imagine him having the skill set that he came back with. He lasted 6 months in college (free GI bill) and I have no idea what happened to him. The last time I saw him he was sifting through the carpet in his mothers house for the dried pot leaves that had fallen from strings stretched across the basement walls.

180,000 contractors, 150,000 US Army = 330,000 at any one time in IRAQ. I would assume at least 500,000 bodies have been to IRAQ. Would not take a very big percentage of them going nuts to pick off a few of us old guys @ Wal-mart. (ok, you go to Wal-mart, I might be picked off @ Whole Foods)

I was not being flippant, I can't see any positive side to all those soldiers/contractors watching buddies get legs blown off and shooting a few locals as payback.

We will be paying for this war for a long time in money and blood.