Pre-emptive Strike Edit Meaning

1.

A euphemised term of an "infamous" surprise attack like the one at Pearl Harbor is called when the winners are the ones who did the surprise attack and write the history books.

The U.S. did a surprise missile strike at the beginning of the Iraq War known as a "decapitation attack". Shouldn't this be a day that will live in infamy as well?

2.

political slang used in place of other more sensitive words like kill, rape, annihilate, bomb-the-shit-out-of, wage-war or decimate because it pretends it is acting in defense from another country that actually poses no real threat.

Dubya: I dont like saddam cuz he tried to keel' ma daddy. Lets...

Rice: Uh Mr. president.. (shakes her head).

Dubya: Right...I geet it (winks and thumbs up) lets

pre-emptive strike his ass!

See deface, annihilate, kill, dubya