Word: squelch
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...improvised explosive devices"-roadside bombs-that have become a grave threat deployed by the insurgency against U.S. troops in Iraq. Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England told some of the military-industrial complex's brainiest thinkers on Monday that "we owe it to the troops" to harness new technologies to squelch the IED threat. Such remote-controlled weapons kill and wound more U.S. troops than any other inside Iraq, England said. Highlighting just how seriously the Pentagon takes the threat, last week England signed a memo elevating what had been a mere Pentagon task force into the Joint Improvised Explosive Device...
...president "For standing with human-rights activists throughout the world" was off the mark. All Americans stand up for freedom, and most represent American values better than Bush does. His Administration propagates misinformation, circumvents the law and defends his actions-no matter how foolhardy-while attempting to squelch objective criticism...
...Plame, Fitzgerald's indictment is a helpful road map. After months of confusion, the indictment provides the most concrete evidence yet of a war between the Veep's office and the CIA--a war about a war--and the lengths Libby and his colleagues were willing to go to squelch any criticism of the Administration's prewar behavior. Libby was a Vulcan,* one of the Bush team hard-liners, along with former Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who helped the President cram for foreign policy debates during the 2000 campaign and who had argued...
...Ramseys hoped this TV appearance would squelch rumors about their daughter's death, they were disappointed. Investigators asked CNN for a copy of the taped remarks and dispatched a team of five Boulder detectives to Atlanta to interview family friends and relatives there. Again people wondered...
...presidential campaign, significant media attention was devoted to the claims of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, a group whose purpose was to squelch Democratic presidential nominee John F. Kerry’s use of his distinguished service in Vietnam as a campaign tool against President George W. Bush, who avoided the draft by enlisting in the Texas Air National Guard after graduating from Yale in 1968. In a television ad that ran during the campaign, the group justified their attack on Kerry by saying that “honesty and character still matters…especially in a time...