There were the Abu Ghraib ignominies, and the Haditha massacre, and there were a thousand lesser, sometimes unreported incidents, in which soldiers humiliated, abused, or killed Iraqi civilians for reasons that had less to do with the Iraqis' possible hostile intentions and more to do with the Americans' fears and hatreds.
Other lesser, sometimes seasonal routes, were added later.
The story goes that until about 10 years ago, a lot of the wild salmon from out West were either smoked or, in lesser varieties, sometimes used for fertilizer or cat food.
If you visit earlier in the year, look out for blankets of tiny white wood anemone and the yellow lesser celandine, sometimes called the spring messenger, which provide essential pollen for bumblebees as they come out of hibernation.
They go out of their way to knock off anyone who opposes their preferred candidates, apparently in the belief that matters of such weight cannot be left to lesser mortals, sometimes known as voters.
He gets such a buzz from the challenge of pitting his intelligence against Djokovic, Nadal and Roger Federer that lesser contests sometimes drain him of his focus and, in a twinkling, he can be flirting with defeat by someone he should be beating in straight sets.
It was just how Bush aides had initially said they planned to use Mr. Cheney: send him to hotly contested, undecided states with a significant number of electoral votes, rather than relegate him to the lesser role sometimes accorded to running mates of shoring up the party's base in small, safe states.
This is the season for flocks of lesser redpolls, sometimes accompanied by a rarer common redpoll, and snow buntings are to be found on the beach.
The lesser rich sometimes rent their luxury digs to tourists, who stream into the town in steady supply enamored by the grand scenery and plentiful wildlife, eager to dine on seared elk medallions and provide Jackson the majority of its economy.
Works by artists of lesser magnitude are sometimes on a par with those of major masters.
While the standing seam roof over most of our house is steeply angled, allowing the snow to slide off, the shingled shed roof built over a kitchen addition has a lesser pitch that sometimes lets the snow build up.
