Word: brutalize
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...reduce collateral damage. "War is inherently violent. People are going to die," Myers said last week. Americans should not look to the relatively antiseptic wars for Kuwait and Kosovo as a guide. If it were to come down to fighting block by block in Baghdad, the images could be brutal. "We have to be mentally prepared for that," Myers said...
...contemporary films, trains and smokestacks in the German countryside normally evoke painful historical memories: the journey of many Holocaust victims to the extermination camps and their brutal deaths...
Bloody strife as a result of disputed elections is no less likely in Iraq than it was in Algeria. Though Saddam Hussein is certainly a brutal and despotic ruler worthy of intense opprobrium, President Bush needs to ask himself some critical questions about the character and temperament of any future Iraqi government...
Bush, not the peace protesters, has the most hopeful view of what U.S. foreign policy and the Iraqi people can achieve. Let us, as students who value freedom and justice for all the world’s people, reject the brutal repression that today’s anti-war rally would have our government ignore. Let us support the war effort and praise Bush for his vision of peace and democracy in Iraq. Let us affirm our faith not only in Iraq’s capacity for enlightened rule, but also in our own leaders’ capacity for sensitivity...
...wait? Tears, a smart, sturdy war film with a lot of heart and a little cleavage, opens this week. And in the art houses there's more, much more of Bellucci in Gaspar Noe's defiantly lurid Irreversible, in which, for nine minutes, her character endures the most brutal rape scene in movie history...