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Many ardent advocates of intervention in Libya when U.N. Security Council Resolution 1973 was debated are now surprised that the operation has drawn out for this long.
If the people who elected him are now surprised to discover that our national security is up for sale to the highest-bidding lobbyist, they shouldn't be.
"If you went to school and you studied this industry and you studied economic cycles, why are you now surprised that this is happening?" he said.
Other scientists, many of whom questioned the value of the shuttle program from the start, are now surprised at the lack of scientific sophistication displayed by the NASA engineers charged with explaining the Columbia disaster publicly.
We are now surprised when a footballer stays on their feet, or doesn't fall to the floor clutching their face when a hand is raised, an indication it has now become acceptable to cheat.
Many who came of age during the Vietnam War, wincing at America's overweening military stance in the world, are now surprised to find themselves lustily rooting for the overwhelming display of force against the Taliban.
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The house salad ($8) comes with a daily "right here, right now" surprise.
The preferred alternative for describing the events at Pearl Harbor in The Los Angeles Times is now "surprise attack".
But it's the excruciatingly high fees airlines charge for overweight pieces of luggage that now surprise and frustrate travellers.
"But they're not being replaced and the governments have sat on their hands and have not done anything about it and now surprise, surprise they're worried about it all".
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