Word: brutalize
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...they care so much for the life of one pilot." After the ceremonies, witnessed by cheering Japanese crowds waving U.S. flags, Bush said he felt some closure: "The visit was not only a very personal, emotional visit of remembrance, but it was about forgetting the brutal past...
...variety of styles, subjects and cultures. Perfect for a newcomer, each contribution has a short accompanying intro to the artist. It mixes artists from Croatia, Hungary and Malaysia with many of America's new generation of comix creators. Tom Hart's fat, almost crude lines perfectly match the brutal ecstasy of his superb "Sandra Brown," a story of lust and mud. In one of the several non-fiction entries, Canadian David Collier boldly finds a parallel between himself and an Islamic fundamentalist. More abstract work keeps the book from being too didactic. Tobias Schalken, half of the experimental "Eiland...
...regime change in Iraq may one day be necessary, but President Bush must come to understand it is not a question for the U.S. to decide on its own. Hussein is a brutal dictator, and his human rights record is dismal—however, so are the human rights records of many of our so-called allies throughout the world. Furthermore, little is now known about the status of Hussein’s chemical, biological and nuclear weapons programs. And although the world cannot stand by idly while the regime acquires and develops these weapons, a preemptive, unilateral strike would...
Thus, prior to destroying Osirak, Israel had substantial evidence that the reactor was being used to produce a nuclear bomb. What’s more, Baghdad appeared to be frighteningly close to developing weapons-grade fuel. The Israelis had seen the brutal reality of Hussein’s territorial ambitions in the Persian Gulf—he had invaded Iran the previous year—and they were well aware of his thinly-veiled desire to conquer and destroy the Jewish state. The imperative nature of Operation Babylon, from their perspective, was undeniable...
...Boat, watching the North Korean port of Wonsan draw closer. A middle-aged Japanese housewife from the southern city of Yamaguchi, Nishimura is too young to remember much about Japan's colonization of the Korean peninsula more than half a century ago, too young to remember her country's brutal subjugation of Koreans during World War II. But as a Japanese, she feels a collective guilt for the sins of an older generation. "I'm sorry," she says suddenly, bowing in the direction of Wonsan's sweeping harbor, where a huge bronze statue of North Korea's late paramount ruler...