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RE: Building Mass Graves Around the World with 17 Years of 'Collateral Damage' Drone Strikes
The military loves to 'cleanse' their language don't they?
Some other classic euphemisms:
Ministry of Defense = Ministry of War
Surgical strike = makes bombing sound like a medical procedure
Extraordinary rendition: Kidnapping, interrogation and torture.
Enemy combatant: title given to enemy to skirt Geneva Convention
Enhanced interrogation: Torture
Waterboarding: Interrupted drowning
Neutralized: Killed
Friendly fire: accidental murder of member of your own side
...and many more...
Haha! Nice list! Thanks for this.
Department of Defense used to be called the Department of War but that changed post WWII. In our post-truth world that has been here for decades, not just in 2016, the meme-generating media injects many contradictory oximoronic things into your consciousness.