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Memo to Petraeus & Crocker: More Laughs, Please

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Who imposes this phony, academic-sounding verbal junk on brave and hard-working men and women who don?t need the added burden of trying to talk like effete characters from Victorian novels? And, General, there is no excuse anywhere on earth for a stillborn monster like ?ethnosectarian conflict,? as Jon Stewart so hilariously pointed out.

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Sheila Samples is an Oklahoma writer and a former civilian US Army Public Information Officer. She is a Managing Editor for OpEd News, and a regular contributor for a variety of Internet sites.

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