Trying to keep current with the news, one encounters and must understand a completely new list of colorful words and sanitizing definitions that are being added to the English language but haven't yet made it to Webster's Dictionary. Following is a small sampling of these words, and I bet everyone can add plenty more of there own:
Security Contractors = Mercenaries; Enhanced Interrogation Techniques = Torture; Surgical Strike = Premeditated Assassination; Plausible Deniability = Telling out-right lies with a clean conscious; Bad Guys = The People we happen to be fighting; Heroes = American GI's; Good Guys = Us; Daisy Cutter = Anti personnel bombs that detonate in the air and just before impacting the ground; Rag Heads = Arabs in their traditional garb, Etc... It goes on and on of course, but I'm sure you get the point.
Luckily though, words are like air and the air dissipates and takes them, but pictures are a completely different matter and that's why Pres. Obama is back-peddling and doesn't want to release the abuse photos of detainees. Everyone knows that that "safe sex" means no reporters present, ...a picture is worth a thousand words..
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