Word: sectioning
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...been very much an American idea, rather than an Iraqi one. So strong was Iraqi opposition to the U.S. offensive at Fallujah that up to half of the Iraqi troops sent there disobeyed deployment orders, and at least one politician resigned from the Governing Council. Later, a broad cross-section of Iraqi politicians warned that the U.S. military campaign against Moqtada Sadr and his supporters was creating more of a problem than Sadr himself represented...
...commander of U.S. forces in Iraq adopted some of Miller's suggestions last fall as military-intelligence officers took charge of a section of Abu Ghraib. MPs were told to help interrogators "set the conditions." Sanchez tweaked some of Miller's suggestions because Iraqi prisoners, unlike those at Guantanamo, are covered by the Geneva Conventions. The Pentagon says the more severe tactics it allowed--like putting prisoners into stressful positions--were never officially used...
...buttresses its arguments from many TV and print sources, including Craig Unger's House of Bush, House of Saud, and Moore's own best-seller Dude, Where's My Country? But Moore, a master propagandist and incorrigible entertainer, knows how to assemble footage in piquant ways. He precedes his section on the Patriot Act by noting that Attorney General John Ashcroft had lost his U.S. Senate seat in 2000 to a recently deceased incumbent: "Voters preferred the dead guy." He shows footage of Bush clowning at his desk in March 2003, moments before giving the televised address that announced...
Horror of horrors! Arrayed cross-legged in a circle around Dartboard’s indomitable teaching fellow were three of the girls in his section. They were sporting jeans in the latest style—low-rise...
...rise jeans were popularized a couple years ago by female pop-stars and movie icons, all of whom shared the same svelte body type. But the girls in Dartboard’s section weren’t exactly Britney Spears around the waist...