Word: stupidities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...minds was whether Saddam should be forcibly, militarily, removed now, or squeezed over many months by international sanctions. After the Geneva talks broke up last week, Americans seemed resigned that war would come. They thought it was necessary, but they did not much welcome it. "I think it's stupid. I don't like why we're there," said Brian Scanlan, 34, a Boston carpenter. "But I feel it's inevitable...
...think [the war is] stupid," said Cari Susan Benbassat-Miller, an eight-year-old protester who attends the Graham and Parks Elementary School in Cambridge. "Talking is the best way, like the sign says, to honor Martin Luther King and to do peace...
...Supposedly we're trying to build a new world order. That's completely stupid," Kent said. "I don't know what we're trying...
...more important now because the deadline is approaching. It makes the exams look trivial," said Hector R. Rocha '94, who has a brother stationed in Saudi Arabia. "It puts it in perspective. These things are stupid compared to that...
Other colleagues were less generous. "Stupid," said a fellow officer of Waller's remarks. "Absolutely imbecilic," said another. Soldiers are not supposed to tell such secrets to the enemy. In truth, what Waller said should come as no surprise to anyone who has been tracking the progress of American deployment in the gulf. That he said it, however, was a shocker. Waller's indiscretion signaled to Saddam that the Rubicon may not be crossed on Jan. 15, thereby undercutting Washington's effort to scare him out of Kuwait without a fight...