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The United States also helped Suharto to seize power back in 1965-66, sanctioned his occupation of East Timor in 1975, and basically looked the other way at three decades of one-man rule and serious human rights violations.
Had Howard or DeSouza been in a movie officially sanctioned by the hip media--a contradiction in terms if ever there was one, they'd have three picture deals with Miramax.
And why, indeed, should he bother putting down his 10 bucks to see people meet violent and untimely ends, when most weekends he can just drive out to wherever they do the lethal injections and see one that he himself sanctioned?
The LAT does: What Clinton signed was a U.N.-sanctioned international treaty.
When the Sudanese refused to hand over three individuals identified as involved in the assassination plot, the UN Security Council passed a resolution criticizing their inaction and eventually sanctioned Khartoum in April 1996.