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The unconscious is a powerful thing. Just ask John McCain and Barack Obama. This week, McCain, following in Obama's Freudian footsteps, referred to American casualties in Iraq as 'wasted.' This being America 2007,, as McCain whipped out his thesaurus and said that he should have used the word 'sacrificed' instead. This was also Obama's preferred replacement term. Of course what went unsaid -- and unclarified -- was that their original statements had been a "Straight Talk" expression of what we all feel in our gut every time we read yet another obituary about yet another 21-year-old dying in Iraq: What a waste of humanity, of bravery, of patriotism... of a future that will never be.
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The unconscious is a powerful thing. Just ask John McCain and Barack Obama. This week, McCain, following in Obama's Freudian footsteps, referred to American casualties in Iraq as 'wasted.' This being America 2007, a clarification quickly followed, as McCain whipped out his thesaurus and said that he should have used the word 'sacrificed' instead. This was also Obama's preferred replacement term. Of course what went unsaid -- and unclarified -- was that their original statements had been a "Straight Talk" expression of what we all feel in our gut every time we read yet another obituary about yet another 21-year-old dying in Iraq: What a waste of humanity, of bravery, of patriotism... of a future that will never be.

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