Word: poisonously
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...gone for good, immensely disturbed by what they had not found. Yet they knew, based on discrepancies in Iraqi documents they had seized, that Iraq still hid 6,000 chemical bombs. They discounted Iraq's contention that it had destroyed all of the 3.9 tons of deadly VX nerve poison that it admitted to having produced or the 500 tons of precursor chemicals to make more. They suspected Iraq retained 550 artillery shells filled with mustard...
...simple moral clarity to which he reduces most questions was exactly what Americans needed to hear. But what if the rare, incandescent clarity of last fall, so perfectly tailored to his black-and-white way of thinking and speaking, has now come and gone? Bush has always preferred his poison straight up or down, good vs. bad, dead or alive, you're either with us or you're with the terrorists. That's a great way to frame things when you're launching a war. But when the moment ends and the world goes back to being gray, where does...
...senior bin Laden agent helped coordinate an assault by Ansar militants to assassinate the secular, pro-American Kurdish leadership last year. Both, he claimed, were captured when Kurdish forces put down the revolt. Safire also fingered Saddam's agents as the men behind Ansar's crude attempts to make poison weapons that drew Pentagon attention...
...where Japanese scientists conducted cruel experiments on POWs and civilians, often slicing open living subjects to remove their hearts. Now, after decades of denial, Japan is coming to terms with the atrocities committed by Unit 731, grappling?both morally and legally?with a history of brutality that continues to poison the country's relations with its neighbors six decades later...
...biological warfare, Yoshio Shinozuka, visited the unit's site?one of 10,000 Japanese who do so every year. The retreating Japanese army had destroyed all buildings except the main office, which now houses a small, tasteful exhibition explaining what happened and showing items such as scalpels and poison gas canisters. Curator Wang Peng says Shinozuka told him how sorry he was for what he had done and had laid a wreath at a memorial to 86 of the known victims. "If the Japanese government could do that, the Chinese people could forgive," says Wang...