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US AND THEM


The following words and expressions were used by the British Press during the Gulf war.

(Source Guardian, 23 January 1991)

We have: They have:
Army, Navy, Air Force a war machine
press briefings propaganda

We: They:
take out destroy
eliminate kill
neutralise kill
dig in cower in their foxholes

We launch: They launch:
first strikes sneak missile attacks
pre-emptively without provocation

Our men are: Their men are:
boys troops
lads hordes

Our boys are: Theirs are:
professional brainwashed
lion-hearts paper tigers
cautious cowardly
confident desperate
loyal blindly obedient

Our missiles cause: Their missiles cause:
collateral damage civilian casualties

We: They:
precision bomb fire wildly at anything

Our planes: Their planes:
suffer a high rate of attrition are shot out of the sky
fail to return from missions are zapped

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