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I've a friend who's older sister married her boyfriend when he returned from Vietnam in the mid/late 1960's. He worked in a successful family business but suffered with PTSD every day, since, to the present. In the early months of bush the LESSER's crime in 2003 Iraq, and seething with anger over the brutal occupation, they attended a neighborhood cocktail party. All conversation seemed supportive of our crime there and one woman arrogantly proclaimed,

"Well, if you're not making money on this war, then you're just stupid!"

Shaking, they immediately left.

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