Word: blameless
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...then were cruelly abandoned to their fate as [Hussein] came in and killed large numbers of them.” The United States, he said, “cannot walk away from them,” and it “cannot forget that we are not blameless in the misery under which they suffer and we must continue to support them...
Part of the reason for the Crimson’s troubles had been bad luck in scheduling—each of Harvard’s losses came against a ranked opponent. But the team wasn’t blameless, either, as it barely averaged six goals per outing during the streak...
...home life with his wife Lily (whom he married in 1906) and his son Felix was utterly blameless; no mistresses, outbursts of jealousy, undisclosed boyfriends or bankruptcies lurked under the rug. His one self-indulgence was cooking. He always bore a social grudge against Picasso, having refused to let him in when, like any Spaniard, Picasso arrived two hours late for their one and only appointment. (What they would have said to each other is conjectural. Klee spoke little French and no Spanish, Picasso no German...
Europeans reacted furiously to President George W. Bush's decision to slap up to 30% tariffs on imported steel, claiming the move flies in the face of the Administration's admonitions to other countries to get with the free trade program. But European countries are far from blameless when it comes to liberalizing their own economies...
Never mind that one of that amendment’s two co-sponsors, guitar- and trombone-player Collin C. Peterson of Minnesota., is a Democrat. He sits on the left side of the aisle, you see, and is therefore blameless. In an especially trenchant bit of analysis, the editorial decided that the musical instruments amendment was an example of the GOP leadership catering to special interests. And there you have it: what looked like an honest bipartisan blunder was in fact nothing but the old Republican-musician racket rearing its ugly head once again...