Word: slaughters
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...allegations of the slaughter of innocent Iraqi men, women and children are proven to be true, the Marines involved should be punished accordingly [June 12]. That American troops are stretched too thin and under incredible stress is not an excuse for murder. But the ultimate focus should be on the leaders who put our brave men and women in this hellish situation in the first place and who stubbornly and arrogantly leave them there to fight a senseless and unwinnable war. Bill Blackwell Timonium, Maryland, U.S. Your story refers to the Haditha incident as "an alleged atrocity committed...
...allegations of the slaughter of innocent Iraqi men, women and children are proved to be true, the Marines involved should be punished accordingly [June 12]. That American troops are stretched too thin and under incredible stress is not an excuse for murder. But the focus should be on the leaders who put our troops in this hellish situation in the first place and who stubbornly leave them there to fight a senseless...
...Saturday's slaughter - the worst single incident since March 1995, when five people were murdered in a Ninth Ward home - brought the year's homicide tally to 52. After a long lull in violent crime following Hurricane Katrina, the murder rate in New Orleans and its suburbs has been rising as more residents return to the area and the repopulation of flooded neighborhoods continues...
...Saturday's slaughter - the worst single incident since March 1995, when five people were murdered in a Ninth Ward home - brought the year's homicide tally to 52. After a long lull in violent crime following Hurricane Katrina, the murder rate in New Orleans and its suburbs has been rising as more residents return to the area and the repopulation of flooded neighborhoods continues...
...live only in their own, square, self-contained universe; they refer to nothing but themselves. Numbers lack the allusiveness of words, their reverberations, their playfulness - how they rub up against one another and transform themselves. Add an S to comic and get cosmic; add one to laughter and get slaughter. You don't get this alchemy with numbers...