Word: insult
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...Insult to Churchill? Andrew Sullivan's attempt to draw parallels between Winston Churchill and Bush in his essay "If It Could Happen to Churchill ..." was unconvincing [March 8]. Churchill's war against Hitler was necessary. Bush's war against Saddam Hussein was not. Churchill knew what Hitler was doing. Bush relied on faulty intelligence about Saddam's weapons of mass destruction. After the war, Britons may have wanted a different political party to lead them during peace. Postwar America's decision about who should be President is still up in the air. Only the elections will tell. Let's wait...
...final courtroom gaffe, it seems, was the presence of celebrity friends--among them Rosie O'Donnell and Bill Cosby--who sat behind Stewart in a show of support. "If anything, we may have taken it as a little bit of an insult," Hartridge said...
...TIME/CNN Poll revealed that 60% of voters thought John Kerry "did his duty ... during the Vietnam War." It is an insult that only 60% considered that a man who earned three Purple Hearts, a Bronze Star and a Silver Star during his months of combat in Vietnam served his country. Who are the 40% who didn't think Kerry did his duty? They probably believe that flying a desk in Alabama constituted honorable service. KEN SCHAETZLE Alexandria...
...INSULT TO INJURY
Naturally, Junior's affliction dredges up family trouble, as he unwittingly keeps repeating an old insult to Tony. Family issues, The Sopranos tells us, are like well-executed TV story lines: they're just the same damn thing over and over again, yet each time they affect and sting as if they were brand new. Even after Tony learns the reason for Junior's repetitions, the medical explanation doesn't put him at ease. The ox-strong, confident don looks at the brittle, fading old man he has replaced as head of the family--a man, recall, who once tried...