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He did himself few favors?

“My comment in the motion is if this occurred, it is something that happens in political life, but not illegal in the sense of giving rise to tort liability,” Karp said in an interview. The motion is “not an admission and it is not an apology. It is to address the specific allegations that have been raised. We don’t admit that they have occurred...I have no reason to believe anything occurred.”

Byron L. Warnken, a professor at the University of Baltimore Law School, said it isn’t a defense he would favor.

“It’s almost an admission that it happens all the time, and it does seem like what they are saying is, ‘It is not a big deal,’ ” Warnken said.

- Lawyer in Md. suit says political favors ‘not unlawful’, Washington Post, May 1, 2010.

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“I love chicks that have been intimate with IED’s,” he announced to his fellow soldiers sitting in the chow tent in Camp Falcon in Baghdad. “It really turns me on -- melted skin, missing limbs, plastic noses.” The soldiers laughed so hard they almost fell from their chairs. They enjoy running over dogs in Bradley Fighting Vehicles, luring them in and then crushing their bones as they whelp. When a soldier comes upon a mass grave, he picks up a human skull, places it merrily on his head, and marches around. This is from the now-famous “Baghdad Diaries,” in the New Republic, carrying the byline of soldier-writer Scott Thomas. They are an attempt to capture the tragedy and dehumanization of war, how it coarsens men in ways that you, safe in your bed, cannot fathom. They are a lost generation, battered by war, and struggling, with the real weapons of war’s survivors -- mordant wit, pitiless humor, the final surrender to nihilism -- to survive in a world they never made. Do I overwrite? Do I sound like an idiot? I’m just trying to fit in.