Word: pretexts
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...Iraq was illegal, fought by service members who would have done well to object to the U.S.'s invasion by refusing to fight, much like those who resisted the draft during the Vietnam War. Instead, the troops marched into a sovereign country like cowboys, under a false pretext, only to learn that the people they liberated wanted the occupiers out at any cost. Time should not demean the sensibilities of the rest of the world by glorifying the wrongs of a nation and its people. Jagdeep Parsram Bombay...
...Americans. The war in Iraq was illegal, fought by service members who would have done well to object to the U.S.'s invasion by refusing to fight, much like those who resisted the draft during the Vietnam War. Instead, the troops marched into a sovereign country under a false pretext, only to learn that the people they liberated wanted the occupiers out at any cost. TIME should not demean the sensibilities of the rest of the world by glorifying the wrongs of a nation and its people. JAGDEEP PARSRAM Bombay...
...user pays” principle for public transportation—a fashionable pretext for fare increases—is an inherently regressive system that makes the poorest more responsible for paying for their transportation. T riders should be rewarded with lower, subsidized fares for lightening traffic and pollution...
...says Jerome Kohel, 59, an accountant from Richland, Mich. But another fellow of the same age in that same crucial electoral state, car hauler Jim Carothers, fumes, "I think he's doing a horrible job. You'll never convince me [Bush] didn't know he was lying about the pretext...
...Indians of the Southwest for decades. Except now, on an early-spring day in 1885, he rides out of the forest seeking "the healer," a.k.a. Maggie (Cate Blanchett), who is, in fact, his deeply estranged daughter. She fixes up his minor injury but, understanding that it's just a pretext for a hoped-for reconciliation, angrily rejects...