Word: slaughtered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...history's most terrible war. According to scenarios drawn from prophetic passages in Daniel, Ezekiel, Zechariah and Revelation, a number of nations, including Babylon (read Iraq) and led by an evil Antichrist, will invade Israel during this conflict. But then the Son of God will return to halt the slaughter and, according to some visions, inaugurate a thousand-year era of peace before presiding at the Final Judgment...
From all this (and much else besides) I have learned certain lessons which will not meet with your approval: generals are paid to lie and engineer efficient slaughter, soldiers are compelled into the twin insanities of anonymous murder (or, at best, complicity) and the nominal mental illness of post-traumatic stress disorder, it is all shit and lies and death. The personal ramifications are clear: I would not, and could not, defend my country or you or my loved ones or myself. I will not die for any reason, least of all to make my death...
Pentagon planners are resisting pressure from the Kuwaiti royal family to include Kuwaiti troops in the first wave of any ground attack to free their country. U.S. officials fear that the returning Kuwaitis might slaughter every Palestinian in sight. Many of the exiles believe that Palestinians living in the emirate collaborated with the Iraqi army and revealed information about important Kuwaitis to the invading forces. Pentagon officials prefer to place Saudi troops, instead, in the vanguard of any assault. Once the area is stabilized, the exiles will be allowed a triumphant march into Kuwait City...
...damage fences; about half the Yellowstone herd is also thought to carry brucellosis, an infectious disease that can cause cows to abort their calves. Montana cattle have been certified brucellosis-free since 1983, but ranchers fear that if the sick bison infect their herds, the result could be quarantine, slaughter and economic ruin...
...bison without knowing if there is an alternative to killing them. I know what we've done up to this point is not proper." Especially considering that the victims are direct descendants of the 20 bison that originally sought refuge in the park and thereby survived the 19th century slaughter that all but eliminated the species from North America...