“War”, “combat”, “combat mission”, “killed in combat”…but in the end, the warrior is still dead, or “deceased”, “passed on”…..
WH: Navy SEAL Was ‘Killed in Combat,’ But ‘Not in a Combat Mission’
By Patrick Goodenough ar CNS (excerpt)
(CNSNews.com) – A Navy SEAL killed during an Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS/ISIL) attack in Iraq was “killed in combat,” White House press secretary Josh Earnest acknowledged Tuesday, but was “not in a combat mission.”
The serviceman, identified as Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Charlie Keating IV, was the third member of the U.S. armed forces to be killed in combat since President Obama sent troops back into Iraq to advise, train and equip local forces, three years after the formal U.S. withdrawal was completed.
And the same people cannot bring themselves to say Islamic terror or their responsibility to prosecute a war against it.
‘Kinetic military action’ or ‘war’? Via Politico, by Jonathon Allen, March 2011
Police action, conflict, hostilities and now “kinetic military action.” They’re all euphemisms for that word that this White House and many before it have been so careful not to say: War.
DLH
