Word: tyrant
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Your father was a drunk, an abusive tyrant who skipped town while you were still a kid. Now you’re grown, with children of your own, and times are tough. Your little girl is chronically ill and the drugs she needs don’t come cheap. Your son made it to college, but his financial aid only goes so far. To top it off, it turns out dad was also a compulsive gambler, and he managed to rack up a sizeable debt with the wrong bunch of guys. Now they expect you to pay up, or else...
...President went in swinging, citing alleged links to terrorism and weapons of mass destruction as the reasons for the invasion of Iraq, which he proclaimed among other things, was intended to uphold the credibility of the United Nations. Overthrowing the tyrant has freed the Iraqi people and the left the Middle East safer, he insisted. But the absence of evidence showing that Iraq maintained weapons of mass destruction or al-Qaeda links, and the ongoing security crisis in post-Saddam Iraq has, if anything, amplified criticism over Washington's decision to launch a war without Security Council authorization...
...Israel, the only true democracy in the Middle East, and sent a strong message to Syria and the Palestinians that there is no alternative to peace. The U.S. assured itself of a favorable position on the avail-ability of Middle East oil and freed the Iraqi people from a tyrant. Rex Shannon Santa...
...repeatedly warned, even on the eve of the current talks, that Kim Jong Il cannot be trusted to keep agreements, and the White House came out in support of a speech by the arch-hawk Undersecretary of State for Non-Proliferation John Bolton that described Kim as a "tyrant" keeping his people imprisoned in a "living hell" and warned against giving in to Pyongyang's nuclear "extortion." That speech, a U.S. diplomat told TIME, "basically called for regime change," and that's in line with the neo-conservative chorus in Washington who have repeatedly warned against any "appeasement...
...Israel, the only true democracy in the Middle East, and sent a strong message to Syria and the Palestinians that there is no alternative to peace. The U.S. assured itself of a favorable position on the availability of Middle East oil and freed the Iraqi people from a tyrant. REX SHANNON Santa Ana, Calif...