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   XPost: talk.politics.guns   
   From: oldpink@nltc.net   
      
   The Lone Weasel wrote:   
   [...]   
   > Most Union casulties were due to disease.   
      
   If you meant that most of those who died in the Civil War died of   
   disease, you are correct.   
   On that matter of casualties, though, the figure is derived from those   
   missing, wounded, or killed in battle, as at Gettysburg, where that   
   number was 52,000.   
   Oh, for those crying crocodile tears for our troops in Iraq, at Cold   
   Harbor, VA, there were over 7,000 KILLED in 20 MINUTES.   
      
   > Next.   
      
   Nice try, but not good enough.   
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   And what exactly is a joke?   
      
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