Word: combatative
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Americans never really go off to war blithely, eagerly, without thinking about it long and hard. We like to believe we fight not out of choice but out of necessity. Yet as the American public once again faces the prospect of combat in a foreign land, it is with an unease that will not go away. You can hear it if you talk to the early-dinner crowd at the Ocean Breeze Restaurant in famously bellwether Macomb County, Mich. Owner Tom Moragianis voted for President Bush but now is concerned that a prolonged engagement in Iraq could be a mortal...
Along the Iraqi front, all units have been put on full alert. Just north of the Iraqi-held oil city of Kirkuk, a side road likely to be used by U.S. combat troops is being buttressed with Iraqi tanks, "all camouflaged so only the gun barrels are obvious," says an officer at a nearby Kurdish gun position. In this district around Qurtan Jukoy, the Iraqis have closed many of the smaller roads used by civilians passing between the lines. For more than 10 days, Iraqi engineers have been gouging deep trenches to slow the approach of soldiers...
...because it will be fun, but because they firmly believe they are the ones best prepared fight it. They are individually certain that our best chance at the lowest possible cost is if they are leading the assault. Would the parents of the soldiers going into combat want their sons and daughters led by men who were unsure of their own ability...
While studying in England, Bolger also began working with Pat Lindamood of the Lindamood-Bell learning processes to combat his dyslexia and slowly gained literacy skills. Now, he says, he is a “sufficient” reader, but still dictates most papers out loud because he has trouble spelling...
...Subcommittee Chair Michael R. Blickstead ’05. “As the representatives for the student body, we want to try and tackle the issue.” Blickstead estimated that the council would be willing to spend upwards of $1,000-2,000 in order to combat the undergraduate dating crisis...