"Is "torment" the new euphemism for torture???"

[donsu]

http://www.buzzflash.com/mailbag/05/09/mai05269.html

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Subject: Abu Ghraib Ruling May Further Tarnish U.S. (AP/NY Times)

1. I don't think it's the ruling that will tarnish the US!

2. Is "torment" the new euphemism for torture???

September 30, 2005 Abu Ghraib Ruling May Further Tarnish U.S. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 9:16 a.m. ET

NEW YORK (AP) -- Photographs showing U.S. soldiers tormenting Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison tarnished America's reputation when they were released last year, with some critics of the U.S.-led occupation citing the scandal as vindication. ...

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isn't torment a form of torture?

is it just the AP transforming the word or is this a new Rove thing?

[Eric J in MN]

1. We must not call it torture because only Bad Guys torture

and the US is always the Good Guys.

[neweurope]

2. Read here about the "tormenting": MUST READ:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4934050

Please keep it kicked! Everybody should read it!

It's not the photographs which have finally ruined the reputation of the US completey. We knew about the torture way before we saw the first photographs. Typical for those murderers: Not the deed is the crime, but the telling.


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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

[donsu]

3. kicking the bushgang into prison

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