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...This war doesn't touch enough Americans. According to Defense Department statistics, 2,591 soldiers have died in Iraq. That's a death toll just slightly less than the number of people who died at the World Trade Center. The military casualties, both those who died and the thousands more who returned with wounds that will never heal, are heartbreaking. But America at large has not been touched by Iraq because the sacrifice is nothing like what people on the home front endured in World War II: the rationing and deprivations, the ache in millions of families when their children...
...itself. But Joe Lieberman succumbed to a political ailment (common to long-serving senators) that would have been as recognizable to Daniel Webster and Henry Clay as it was to so many 21st century bloggers: He got his head lost in the clouds of national politics and lost touch with his constituents...
...gets bounced in a primary battle with a political unknown, it's a very big deal. Those numbers all add up to a political upheaval this November. The folks in D.C. see the numbers. But they haven't gotten their heads around what they mean. Joe was out of touch. And Washington...
...crocodiles a day: "You'd shoot them in the earhole." Stalking and killing them was easy compared to retrieving the carcass. If the crocodile was shot in water, he says, "We'd draw straws to see who would have to dive in and get it. You'd go by touch and hope it was killed." But the risks were all part of the thrill. Nowadays, he says mournfully, "You can't do anything without a license. You can't even smoke in the pub anymore...
...touch, the ocher walls are smooth and warm; no creatures are visible, so you poke a stick into the mound. Seconds later the repairman arrives and starts plugging the hole. Poke again, and another laborer turns up. Another hole, another worker. And there are a hundred thousand more waiting to play. It's a fun game, but you'll tire of it before they...