Worse yet, they're seeing that Americans are starting to blame both sides for the Washington standoff.
Because in the end, history will blame both sides -- for looking small when most of the country thinks our problems deserve solutions that are really big.
"We are quite stunned that the U.N. would issue such a report and try to blame both sides for violations when it is clear who is committing atrocities in the country and who is killing our innocent civilians, " Almokdad said.
Both sides blame each other for provoking a gunfight on March 27th at Mr Ntoumi's headquarters in the wooded hills near Vindza.
In their latest public appearance, Republicans said time is up, urging Senate Democrats to pass their bill and get on with running the country, without ever recognizing that as both sides blame the other for not passing their own bill, they are both being equally stubborn.
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Ms. GILDA COBB-HUNTER (Political Activist, The Marvelettes): Well, I think it's important to note that there is probably blame to go around on both sides.
Each side blamed each other for the conflict but an eight-month European Union-commissioned inquiry concluded that both sides shared the blame for the conflict.
Countries that have long-term gas partnerships with Russia primarily the West Europeans chose the "both sides are to blame" approach to the war in Georgia.
Countries that have long-term gas partnerships with Russia -- primarily the West Europeans -- chose the "both sides are to blame" approach to the war in Georgia.
But on the specifics, I think both sides can take some blame for a sour climate on Capitol Hill.
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Meanwhile, the partisan rhetoric by both sides seeking to cast blame on the other continued unabated, signaling continued political brinksmanship over tax and spending issues beginning with the March 27 deadline for Congress to authorize funding to run the government until the current fiscal year ends on September 30.
QUIST-ARCTON: Andrew Natsios said that both sides - the government and the rebels - are to blame for the Darfur crisis.
Having contrived to produce exactly the opposite result, this visit must therefore be counted a foreign-policy failure on both sides, for which both governments must share a part of the blame.
China bashing is a popular pastime in Washington on both sides of the aisle, with the Middle Kingdom, in general, getting the blame for everything from high U.S. jobless rates to higher ice cream prices.
In Washington, leaders on both sides of the aisle wring their hands and point fingers at one another, attempting to place blame for the fact that nothing is getting done.
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