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The message of this document, stripped of its cynical euphemisms and calculated evasions, is unmistakably clear:
The United States government asserts the right to bomb, invade and destroy whatever country it chooses.
It refuses to respect as a matter of international law the sovereignty of any other country, and reserves the right to get rid of any regime, in any part of the world, that is, appears to be, or might some day become, hostile to what the United States considers to be its vital interests. Its threats are directed, in the short term, against so-called 'failed states' that is, former colonies and impoverished Third World countries ravaged by the predatory policies of imperialism.
But larger competitors of the United States, whom the document refers to, in a revival of pre-World War II imperialist jargon, as 'Great Powers,' are by no means out of the gun sights of the Bush administration. The wars against small and defenseless states that the United States is now preparing — first of all against Iraq — will prove to be the preparation for military onslaughts against more formidable targets. —
David North, The War against Iraq and America's Drive for World Domination

We don’t have wars.
We have conflicts
campaigns
operations
escalations
missions
offensives
preemptive strikes
We don’t have soldiers.
We have peace keepers
troops
servicemen
service women
forces
coalitions
units.
We don’t have mistakes in combat.
We have
incidents
accidents
friendly fire
flawed intelligence.
We don’t have death.
We have
casualties
loss of life
collateral damage
What we do have
is a careful vocabulary.

Wagner, Ann. 2008.

"America At War".