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re: One last time unto the breach

"You can get pedantic about what self-inflicted means in the military if you like. I know what it means to me, and shrapnel bouncing off a rock in the distance isnt the picture that comes to mind."

It does to me- and particularly if not in a combat situation. No one [particularly the enemy] is making Kerry do something which was not neccesary as much as foolish. If you throw a ball straight up in the air and lands on your head- that's something I would in a non-miltary sense call self-inflicted. If you are trying to start a fire with gasoline and pour it on open flames [and of course the flames would run up the stream of gas] and burn yourself, that's self inflicted. You should know enough to take proper precautions. One assumes Kerry knows something about hand grenades- if he is using them.

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