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| The double standards of American English... |
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| Saffiyah |
| 04/09/03 at 17:21:19 |
| [center] The double standards of American English.............. **What do you call someone who explodes a bomb and kills innocent people? - A terrorist. **What do you call someone who drops a bomb from a plane and kills innocent People? - A brave American pilot. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- **What do you call the form of government where a small elite exploits and intimidates the citizens? -A dictatorship. **What do you call the form of government where a small elite exploits and intimidates the citizens, and the citizens can choose every few years which part of the elite should occupy the government buildings? - A democracy. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- **What do you call it when a group of people take the law into their own hands and kill people without a fair trial? - A lynching. **What do you call it when the US takes the law into its own hands and kills people without a fair trial? - Operation Enduring Freedom. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- **What do you call a weapon that can kill thousands of people? - A weapon of mass destruction. **What do you call a weapon that has killed 1.5 million Iraqis, including more than 500,000 children? - Sanctions. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- **What do you call it when just over 3 thousand people were killed in the September 11 attack on the US? - An atrocity. **What do you call it when nearly 5 million people were killed in the Vietnam war? - A mistake. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- **What do you call it when very rich people exploit poor people? - Greed and selfishness. **What do you call it when very rich countries exploit poor countries? - Globalization. --------------------------------------------------------------------- **What do you call a foreign oppressor in the last century that controlled the economical and social life of a country? - A colonialist power. **What do you call a foreign oppressor in this century that controls the economical and social life of a country? - The International Monetary Fund. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- **What do you call it when people are slaughtered? - A massacre. **What do you call it when 100.000 to 200.000 Iraqi's are slaughtered by the US at a loss to American forces of 148 (46 of which were killed by friendly fire)? - The Gulf War. [/center] * From a forwarded e-mail |
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