Word: butcher
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...little more noble and transcendent - the last President Bush wasn?t so foolhardy as to ask Americans to send their sons and daughters to die on foreign soil in order to keep the nation?s gas pumps turning over. No, the pretext had to be more gallant. Enter the "Butcher of Baghdad" - whereas the U.S. had been happy to supply him with weapons and intelligence for his war against Iran in the 1980s, Saddam's invasion of Kuwait prompted President Bush to suddenly recognize him for the thug he'd always been, and begin painting him as a latter...
...element in mobilizing Americans was the invoking of Hitler's ghost, and the idea of the Butcher of Baghdad on the march terrorizing his neighbors. Americans hate a bully, and many of them are willing to step in when they see one beating up on weaker people. And it's those instincts that have to be tapped whenever the nation?s leaders choose to make...
...bombardment that began on January 16, beamed live into America's living rooms by CNN, was imagined in the U.S. as some sort of crusade for justice. Hence the frustration and confusion attached to the fact that a decade after Washington proclaimed victory, the Butcher of Baghdad is still in power, still terrorizing his people (even if his neighbors are a lot safer), and still in command of a vast and deadly military...
When the service is over, they will linger for a bit. The old people will talk to each other in Portuguese, before heading home, perhaps stopping at the Portuguese butcher for sausage or the fishmonger for fish imported from Portugal...
...fans of Eastern action epics, Yuen is revered as the deviser of artful torture for Asia's top actor-athletes: Jackie Chan (the 1978 Drunken Master), Sammo Hung (Magnificent Butcher), Jet Li (The Tai Chi Master) and Michelle Yeoh (Wing Chun, with its amazing battle over a plate of tofu). In period epics and modern cop dramas, his heroes and villains have used chopsticks, pigtails, calligraphy brushes, umbrellas and robe sleeves as impromptu weapons. His melodrama is never mellow: a little girl is bundled in dynamite (The Red-Wolf); a heroine battles a predator...