Word: bothered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bother with those soldiers. They don't even do their own laundry, and they always wear the same colors. I've known they were scum ever since my brother's G.I. Joe used to kill my Barbies...
...danger to the canal; the White House itself had originally laughed off Noriega's "declaration of war"; Bush's flowery defense of American womanhood, based on a single murky episode of rude remarks, belongs in an operetta. True, Noriega's thuggery and drug connections didn't much bother anyone in the White House until Michael Dukakis (remember him?) decided to make an issue of them in 1988. True, the invasion will have no impact on the drug war anyway. True, there were less bloody ways to remove Noriega, before and since. True, the only legitimate reason for the invasion -- establishing...
Meanwhile, little is heard from an area of law you might think was more relevant: international law. Unlike Ronald Reagan before the invasion of Grenada, Bush didn't even bother to find some Organization of Insignificant Nearby Countries to smoke an invitation out of. This time around, U.S. officials can barely be troubled to invoke their one-size-fits-all interpretation of Article 51 of the U.N. Charter, which refers to the right of national self-defense...
...self-righteous protesters outside the yard, think how horrified you would be if one Swiss woman was raped by an Iraqi soldier. The rape of many Kuwaiti women by Iraqi soldiers doesn't seem to bother...