Word: disgustful
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...scenes of coalition soldiers physically abusing Iraqi prisoners fueled Arab rage and became, fairly or not, symbols of the much-resented U.S. occupation of Iraq. President Bush expressed a "deep disgust" with the crimes and vowed that those responsible would be brought to justice. Six soldiers face courts-martial over the affair, and the officer in charge of the prison, Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, has been suspended. Attorneys for the accused say their clients were only following orders to soften up the prisoners for interrogation and that the guards are being made scapegoats. Major General Geoffrey Miller, the former head...
...shared a deep disgust that those prisoners were treated the way they were treated. Their treatment does not reflect the nature of the American people." GEORGE W. BUSH, U.S. President, reacting to photographs broadcast on CBS's 60 Minutes II TV program depicting Iraqi prisoners being abused and humiliated by U.S. soldiers...
...last year's gubernatorial recall election are what led secretary of state Shelley to distrust e-voting. In March more than a third of the precincts in San Diego County opened late because the new machines didn't fire up properly, leading many voters to leave in disgust. A study by Diebold of problems with its equipment in Alameda County found that 186 of the 763 encoders used to program the smart cards had failed. As a result of those foul-ups, thousands of voters were disenfranchised in the two counties. Shelley's office concluded in a report released last...
...this country," he says quietly. "People here don't even trust themselves anymore." Although he supports the U.S. sanctions, Ko Myo does not believe they will topple the regime, and now?after years of staying to help his country?he is one of many Burmese leaving in desperation and disgust. It takes hundreds of dollars and months of waiting to get a passport, and the Rangoon office that issues them is now besieged by applicants. It helps to be male. Stung by foreign criticism that Burma is exporting sex workers, the regime now makes it nearly impossible for young women...
...trip to Burma, he had bravely taken me to the house of a prominent democrat. Stupidly, I had no idea who she was or what risks Ko Myo had taken to bring me there. Today, he takes a spoonful of tea-leaf salad and shakes his head in mock disgust. "To think I risked a 10-year prison sentence for that," he says...