Wednesday, May 19, 2004

 
Sleep Management

Today's euphemism is sleep management:

"The detainees were purposefully and carefully put under stress, to include sleep deprivation, in order to facilitate interrogation; they were not tortured," it said. The version received on Monday used the phrase "sleep management" instead.

-From an article alleging abuse of journalists in Iraq by U.S. soldiers. Read the whole thing (if you can stomach it) here. You may need to scroll down to the title Now They're Torturing Journalists.

To learn more about today's euphemism, contact Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who will, I'm sure, do a "superb job" explaining it to you.

Regards,

Helmet Head


posted by Brian 8:34 AM