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Why can't we just call it what it really is?
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SGB said:If the Bush administration can't use clear and honest language about this, how is the American public to trust them on anything else?
SlaveToTheGrind said:All government, esp. the feds use this type of language. It is not unique to one administration or another.
gkmo62u said:Read the article. It was coined by the pentagon in 1991.
gkmo62u said:Read the article. It was coined by the pentagon in 1991.
But today's military doesn't even use the words "body bags" — a term in common usage during the Vietnam War, when 58,000 Americans died.
During the 1991 Persian Gulf War, the Pentagon began calling them "human remains pouches" and it now refers to them as "transfer tubes."
Big Easy King said:I'm sickened that American soldiers are dying everyday in Iraq.
Being that W is the C & C of the US military, I guess it is a Bushism afterall.gkmo62u said:Jb my point was that it is a Pentagon term, not a President's term as implied by this once again Bush bashing Cyburbia thread.
gkmo62u said:Planderella, I suggest that we all defer to families who have lost soldiers and have taken part in any ceremony at an air base, before we refer to the event as "irreverent." I'll let ElGuopo take a shot, as my gut tells me the care and private ceremony afforded our heroes is anything but irreverent.
Big Easy King said:I'm sickened that American soldiers are dying everyday in Iraq.
Mike D. said:They wouldn't have to if everyone wasn't so PC about rounding up all illegal immigrants, shipping them back to wherever they came from, stopping all flights to and from the Mid East, encouraging a little more racial profiling when it comes to young middle eastern males, etc etc.
The US won't let the US fight the war at home, so its gotta be done abroad.
Michele Zone said:
Oh, wait -- I have a question: legally, do illegal immigrants have 'civil rights'? Or are we so nice merely as a sign of how Decent we are? ( The rest was sarcastic BS, but this is a serious question: Does anyone know the answer?)
el Guapo said:"Mrs. Jablowme,
The Irish One said:What Mike D. and Michelle said.
El Feo said:
Sorry - what was this tread about again?