The double standards of American English...

[zenje]

Salaam everyone,

Just wanted to share this e-mail I received today... 'sad, but true'.

**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.