Word: misbegotten
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...Iraq is so unpopular, no one would go. People would vote with their feet, and that would make Bush and other lawmakers face up to the disaster that this has become. As it is, they can afford to avoid the hard choices and continue to fight a misbegotten war with other people's children. Jim Calio Marina del Rey, California...
...Iraq is so unpopular, no one would go. People would vote with their feet, and that would make Bush and other lawmakers face up to the disaster that this has become. As it is, they can afford to avoid the hard choices and continue to fight a misbegotten war with other people's children. Jim Calio Marina del Rey, California...
...Iran and North Korea. But those successes have more to do with process than with substance. And they have done nothing to resolve the question of whether Rice is truly willing to risk failure, and her reputation, in a concerted effort to get the U.S. out of a messy, misbegotten war. Rice no longer has to worry about whether Rumsfeld will return her calls. Now she has to come up with the answers...
...unexpected increment, a crowd of grown-ups looking for some wit in an unlikely place - the multiplexes in summertime. This new film lends a certain credence to that supposition. It is as endless (at two and a half hours) as the Peter Jackson King Kong, and like that misbegotten film it is intended for the last mass audience left to the movies - adolescent males geekily parsing the effectiveness of its special effects. They will doubtless think they?re swell. The director, Gore Verbinski, has spared no expense in realizing them, and there's no doubt in my mind that...
...ARTHUR SCHLESINGER Jr. Historian Get out of Iraq. Get out as quickly as possible, and respectfully. As long as we carry the burden of Iraq, a misbegotten war, it's going to be very difficult to do anything at home...