Word: vile
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...doubt that the ouster of Saddam Hussein can be accomplished only by force [NATION, March 17]. As a former soldier, I am quite certain that the arms concessions recently wrung from Iraq were in response to the presence of the thousands of U.S. and British troops. Saddam is a vile dictator who has brought misery to his people and many others in the states that surround him. I have done legal work on behalf of Iraqi refugees who were appealing refusals of requests for asylum in Britain and know firsthand of the torture, terror and butchery of the Iraqi regime...
...Charles was jailed and forced to watch executions. The sight of beheadings made even this tough guy sick. Still, Charles was lucky. A relative with connections sprang him from jail, and by fleeing to Chongqing province after Japanese air raids killed his parents, he missed the Japanese army's vile rape of Nanjing...
...Five: Well, those views are pretty shocking, but one loony isn’t symptomatic of a larger problem at Harvard. In addition to a number of hostile responses, Pappin claims to have received e-mails from nine undergraduates supporting his letter. Clearly, the view that homosexuality is vile and worthy of repression—if not quite suppression—is held by more people on campus than just he. Pappin mercifully appears to be in the sizeable minority on this issue, but he is not alone...
Therein lies Russia’s—and France and China’s—fundamental quarrel with American strategy. Whereas Bush is preoccupied with removing a vile dictatorship before it acquires nuclear capability, they are more concerned with removing the U.N. sanctions. Over the past 12 years, energy executives from the three countries have negotiated provisional agreements with Hussein to begin major oil development projects on the day that sanctions are finally revoked...
...radical left had a huge presence. Their views were accepted as normal, so the less radical liberals, not to mention everyone else, were seen as reactionary, out of it, or even wicked. It was very painful and difficult. Everyone in certain professions was characterized as a vile person. It was actually very simplistic. The tone of the publications on campus was the same...