Word: forgiven
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...other hand, Romania doesn't seem like much of a step down right now. And with stock crashes, pink slips and power outages ripping through Silicon Valley like Old Testament plagues, anyone would be forgiven for thinking someone up there wants them out or is at least exacting revenge for all the crummy business plans they wrote...
...office by a bodyguard, he was bundled onto a plane bound for an emergency room in far-off Zimbabwe rather than being sent for treatment in his own capital. So young Joseph apparently knows better than to rely on the local troops for his protection. Indeed, Congolese would be forgiven for thinking he was not their own leader as much as the spokesman for the Zimbabwean and Angolan armies currently pouring reinforcements into the war-ravaged country. Which is, of course, a double irony for the Congolese, since his father had arrived in the capital four years...
...What we have been doing is reporting aircrafts that are down, as in they can't fly, as being up, as in full-mission capable," the letter alleges. Given the risk to Marine lives and careers posed by the lies, one could be forgiven for assuming that they helped the corps' only V-22 squadron achieve the Marine requirement that the V-22 be ready to fly 75 percent of the time. Far from it. A recent outside review, apparently incorporating the misleading data, said the V-22s were full prepared for their missions only 20 percent of the time...
...forgiven for thinking we lost the Gulf War. After all, ten years to the day after it began, Saddam Hussein is still in power, his grip stronger than ever. He may even still have weapons of mass destruction. And Iraq is not a democracy. (Nor is Kuwait, for that matter, almost a decade after it was liberated by a U.S.-led alliance.) You may be forgiven for thinking that way, but you'd also be wrong. Because despite the official spin at the time, the Gulf War was not about Saddam Hussein or democracy or even weapons of mass destruction...
...President-elect Bush would be forgiven for taking issue with that interpretation. The incoming administration is more likely to see maintaining the peace process as primarily the responsibility of the Israelis and Palestinians themselves...