Learning

i learned something today I didn't know before. According to bush, rice and rumsfeld, water torture is not torture because they deem it to be not.
I will have to relay this message to my kids so they can learn from it. torture is not torture if people in power say its so.....
Thank you leaders of the free world for the examples and lessons we can all learn and follow.

abstractions

What I see and hear day to day, week to week, year to year, from our governments are, words which mask, abstract the reality of given situations, the latest example of this is, the Pentagon and White House using abstractions in their wording of torture in a attempt to make you, me and others think that torture isn't torture because of the wording.
Please, language is so powerful, stop and look at what is being said.
Brian