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  • Pale and bloody-handed, Ellen stared at her mother from the landing.

    The Dressmaker Posie Graeme-Evans 2010

  • After the resurrection sequence, visitors applaud and line up for a photo op, not with Mickey or Minnie, but a disciple or bloody-handed yet friendly centurion.

    LOSING OUR RELIGION S. E. CUPP 2010

  • After the resurrection sequence, visitors applaud and line up for a photo op, not with Mickey or Minnie, but a disciple or bloody-handed yet friendly centurion.

    LOSING OUR RELIGION S. E. CUPP 2010

  • One was to embrace and bring into his government many of the corrupt, incompetent and bloody-handed mujaheddin leaders who screwed things up so miserably after the departure of the Soviet Union in 1989.

    Nick Mills: Hamidinejad? 2010

  • After the resurrection sequence, visitors applaud and line up for a photo op, not with Mickey or Minnie, but a disciple or bloody-handed yet friendly centurion.

    LOSING OUR RELIGION S. E. CUPP 2010

  • After the resurrection sequence, visitors applaud and line up for a photo op, not with Mickey or Minnie, but a disciple or bloody-handed yet friendly centurion.

    LOSING OUR RELIGION S. E. CUPP 2010

  • A failure, a bloody-handed man who led his people to destruction.

    He Don't Know Him 2010

  • He called the operation a "disreputable, CIA-inspired effort, often deplored as a bloody-handed assassination program (and) a failure."

    Printing: Afghanistan's Operation Phoenix 2009

  • He called the operation a "disreputable, CIA-inspired effort, often deplored as a bloody-handed assassination program (and) a failure."

    Afghanistan's Operation Phoenix 2009

  • Most delicious of all, would you have ever believed that the bloody-handed enablers of the Iraq war – Clinton, Edwards, Kerry – all of whom knew exactly what they were voting for, and all of whom did it to advance their personal ambitions over the dead bodies of Iraqis and Americans alike, that these disgusting opportunists would have been handed their walking papers, in no small part because of this vote?

    Not Bad. Not Half-Bad. 2008

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