News reports inform us that an American soldier undergoing stress therapy in Iraq allegedly shot and killed five of his fellow soldiers during one of these sessions. This led one CNN babbler to ask the most inane question: why did he have a gun? Hey, fella, he’s a soldier, participating in a war in Iraq. You may have heard about this war: it made all the newspapers!! What would you expect a soldier in a war zone to be carrying?

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