<COMMENT>The ABI ruins</COMMENT>
<P><B>War: Not as fun as it sounds.
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<P>Death, destruction, looting, bombing and soldier, war has plenty of all these things, but its not all fun and games. For instance the death that I mentioned earlier, its not like in the movies you know. It hurts, normally takes quite a long time and unlike in all these ultra realistic computer games death actually lasts forever, no extra lives or anything.
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<P>The destruction and bombing also sounds like a laugh, but it involves a lot of people losing things that are very precious to them, like their houses, their belongings and their limbs and unlike here most people dont have full contents insurance, in fact very few people even have third party fire and theft. All these poor innocent people are not only losing their families, they are losing their precious belongings and getting no recompense. And you thought all there was to war was shooting evil terrorists and dodging bullets.
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<P>To be honest most of the people who have been shot or bombed have been innocent civilians and where is the fun in that, theres no challenge to shooting civilians, they dont even fire back and as anyone who has played Time Crisis 2 knows, if you shoot a civilian you lose a life. Although I havent been able to find out if this is really true in reality, I imagine they dock a day's pay or something even if it was a mistake and losing money is no fun at all.
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<P>Another thing is the cost of the war, its very expensive, you know at the moment the Iraq war has so far cost around $98,000,000,000 thats about $335 per US Citizen, or an Xbox Each with a large selection of games, I would suggest Grand Theft Auto double pack, Star Wars KOTOR, Top Spin, and Deus Ex 2 for a start.
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<P>I say lets stop all these wars, and settle all our international disputes over a 16 player Halo team deathmatch.