Word: butcher
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Many have said that war is hell. If war is hell, who is the culpable evildoer? Saddam Hussein calls George Bush "Satan," and Bush calls Hussein the "Butcher of Baghdad." So who is the real warlock? To the dismay of the unequivocal supporters of either Hussein or Bush, both epithets are correct in that both are responsible for much of the world's recent fiendishness. This is obviously distasteful news to our self-censoring listeners who ignore their own country's fallacies. But facts are facts...
...strategic importance of maintaining the relatively pro-Western Kuwaiti and Saudi Arabian regimes outweighed their poor treatment of their citizens. But in light of the abysmal human rights record Hafez el-Assad, America's warming relations with Syria are totally unacceptable. To cut off the hand of the Butcher of Baghdad, we have fallen into the arms of the Devil of Damascus...
...judge by what's selling in Christian bookstores these days, the war in the Persian Gulf is not about anything so mundane as liberating Kuwait or neutralizing the Butcher of Baghdad. Rather, the "mother of battles" (as Saddam Hussein likes to call it) is about the fulfillment of biblical prophecies regarding the imminence of Armageddon...
...rock fan. He dismisses Jagger as "a ruler with no queen, no jester, no kingdom, just an egocentric bitch king with a neon scepter sitting on a hollow throne." But Hotchner does display a certain amount of commercial calculation, no doubt having sized up the sales receipts of rock butcher Albert Goldman's biographies of Elvis and John Lennon, and he comes up with his own cash-register kicker: Brian Jones was murdered...
Some experts believe that the Gainesville butcher is still in the area and that there is enough evidence to track him down. Hundreds of fearful students have deserted their off-campus apartments, at least temporarily, while others are spending their nights with large groups. More than 400 have left town altogether for their parents' homes. "People are petrified," says Marshall Knudson, director of the county's crisis center, which fielded more than 10,000 calls from jittery residents last week...