Word: truth
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...manager shot to death by Iraq's occupation forces? Or was he beheaded? Or hanged? Three supposed eyewitnesses described the murder differently to TIME, although all agree on the result: the man is definitely dead. Whatever actually happened, the fate of that particular Kuwaiti confirms a well-known reality: truth is often war's first casualty...
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...
...Truth often begins as a form of blasphemy: the revelation of deception is a kind of honesty. The year witnessed a variety of examples of candor and a sense of coming to terms with reality. The wishful notion that we were embarking on a kinder, gentler year went out the window with the invasion of Kuwait. Facing facts was evident in everything from the distribution of condoms in public schools to the release of Nelson Mandela, to the movement for congressional-term limits, to William Bennett saying he wanted to leave politics to make money, to Marla Maples (allegedly) saying...
...There is much truth in that House report. And there is an edge in the language that I have previously not seen from the House committee, and it is a reflection of the frustration that Congress feels with the leadership of the National Institutes of Health and with the leadership of biomedical research across the country...
...deny Saddam a p.r. victory by maintaining that such a conference was in no way connected to the gulf crisis. The Bush Administration could argue that the Arab-Israeli conflict needed to be dealt with anyway, a position consistent with well-established U.S. policy. But everyone would know the truth -- that the gulf crisis had precipitated the conference -- and Saddam would be able to portray himself as the hero of the Palestinians...