bang the books v.— «When I went to the field, I saw things like voucher fraud and banging the books—which means time and attendance fraud—and some of us were bitterly disappointed about that. But we rationalized that we were fighting a...
haji n.— «We were pretty much told that they were nobodies, that they were just enemy combatants. I think that giving them the distinction of soldier would have changed our attitudes toward them. A lot of it was based on racism, really...
hadji n.— «To me, the ordinary Iraqi people count as “people” the thugs trying to set themselves up as warlords are “Hadji” or “enemy.” I am not here to be politically correct.» —“Re: crocodile...