Body Bags Are Now "Transfer Tubes" [View All]

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In yet another clue that the Bu$h Administration thinks 1984 is an instruction manual, they have devised an especially lovely little bit of Newspeak:

But today's military doesn't even use the words "body bags" — a term in common usage during the Vietnam War, when 58,000 Americans died.

During the 1991 Persian Gulf War, the Pentagon began calling them "human remains pouches" and it now refers to them as "transfer tubes."

My classes start reading 1984 this week, and I will be sure to use this as an example.

Has any administration ever sought to manipulate us so brazenly? Every time we think they've hit rock bottom, they go lower. These people are our real enemies, not fellow Democrats.

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