We Don't Kill, We "Eliminate"

My email to ABC News, in response to their email:

"Eliminated". What a nice clean word. Like so much clutter around the house. And the others that were also killed with the bombing, human beings who were fighting for their freedom, not corporate profits and empire, likewise swept into the dustpan.

Sadly, in using language that softens the reality of mass killing for profit, Nightline becomes an accessory after the fact as to that murder, and an accessory to the next.

TLC
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Nightline soft-peddled and obfuscated in their email about the show that was to run June 8, 2006:

ZARQAWI ELIMINATED
The notorious Abu-al-Zarqawi, the man responsible for a bloody wave of terrorist attacks against Western and Iraqi targets for the past two years, was killed early this morning in a U.S. air strike coordinated with the Jordanian military. Pentagon officials proudly displayed a photo of his corpse as proof that he'd been killed. The United States had posted a $25 million bounty on his head. No one knows what effect the elimination of al-Zarqawi will have on the insurgency in Iraq, but we'll try to analyze what's next and take you through how the U.S military pulled this off. White House correspondent Martha Raddatz, who broke the news to the world this morning at 2:38, will work the story for us.