[SPORK] Weird definition of "draining the swamp"

[Jeff Bone]

On Wednesday, Apr 30, 2003, at 14:08 US/Central, Russell Turpin wrote:

> Jeff Bone:
>> We're talking about international relations,
>> not internal ones.  If you count that, then you need to throw in our 
>> Civil War on our tally.  What then?
>
> As bloody as our Civil War was, costing
> more American casualties than any other, the
> lives lost to the Soviet Union are more than
> an order of magnitude greater.

Let's talk numbers.  I don't buy this, but I could easily be wrong on 
this.

jb