I had been seeing myself on stage, with a war bugle blowing and bullets whizzing by and here I was, a soldier crouching in his trench and ready for a bayonet charge, to take my fate by its throat.

我曾觉得自己是这样的，当军号响起，子弹就在耳旁飞过，而我就在那里，一个士兵蜷伏在战壕中并准备用刺刀冲锋，来掌握我的命运之喉。

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Consider this: One of the most under-reported statistics about the war in Iraq is my generation's overwhelming support for it - not just in its early stages but well into last year.

想想这条：在关于伊拉克战争的最少得到报道的统计中，有一项即是我这一代对它的全力支持——不仅在它的早期阶段，也一直贯穿到最后一年。

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Given that Somalia's Union of Islamic Courts, which seeks to govern the whole of Somalia, has declared a jihadist war on Ethiopia, my country is concerned about its national interest and security, as well as that of the region, and the impetus of these concerns is not a design to win America's friendship.

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Going back to World War II, for all its horrors, which I am all too familiar with, in terms of my family, from an economic standpoint a lot of amazing things came out of the war that were not forecast in the beginning.

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