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Why is it that there's more indignation over a photo of a prisoner with underwear on his head than over the video of a young American with no head at all?

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Zell Miller
Age: 86 †
Born: 1932
Born: February 24
Died: 2018
Died: March 23
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One of these days, someone smarter and younger and more articulate than I is going to get through to the American people just how really messed up the federal government has become. And when that happens, the American people are going to rise up like that football crowd in Cleveland and run both teams off the field.
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For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure.
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When a child has no hope, a nation has no future.
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Once upon a time, the most successful Democratic leader of them all, FDR, looked south and said I see one third of a nation ill-housed, ill clad, ill nourished. Today our national Democratic leaders look south and say, I see one third of a nation and it can go to hell.
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Where I come from, deeds mean a lot more than words.
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I have knocked on the door of this man's soul and found someone home.
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I can remember that little thrill - that little shiver of excitement - when the Opry audience would encore a person because that person had touched them so.
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Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, todays Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators.
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A Marine knows that pride is the bedrock upon which he will lay the foundation of his life, and on that foundation he will build the structure by which the worth of his existence and the measure of his accomplishments will be judged.
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