Memories I - A rose by any other name
There are times (when pocketwatches drip from blue skies) being right can seem surreal.
Recently a significant number of news sources reported that the euphemism "enhanced interrogation techniques" favored by the Bush administration is the same term used by Hitler's Gestapo and SS to describe the same torture techniques being used by the Bush Administration today (i.e. waterboarding) and which were declared "tortue" and crimes against humanity at the Nuremburg trials.
As much a surprise as this may have been, it was not the first usurpation of the Third Reich's vocabulary, as indicated in my letter to the editor dated May 27, 2003:
Recently a significant number of news sources reported that the euphemism "enhanced interrogation techniques" favored by the Bush administration is the same term used by Hitler's Gestapo and SS to describe the same torture techniques being used by the Bush Administration today (i.e. waterboarding) and which were declared "tortue" and crimes against humanity at the Nuremburg trials.
As much a surprise as this may have been, it was not the first usurpation of the Third Reich's vocabulary, as indicated in my letter to the editor dated May 27, 2003:
To the Editor:
Donald Rumsfield said " "What will follow will not be a repeat of any other conflict. It will be of a force and scope and scale that has been beyond what has been seen before." Thurs. March 20, 2003.
Mr. Rumsfield is wrong. The force and scope may be greater than ever before. However this conflict is an uninspired, unoriginal carbon copy of a familiar battle plan.
Blitzkrieg.
posted by BuddhistAttorney | 11:45 PM
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