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Al and Tipper Gore have helped by saying they've each had "counseling" but, as Frank Rich has noted, Tipper's use of such euphemisms and the avoidance a "professional title [that] might include the prefix 'psych-' ...
There are many drinks in this category, as one might expect, since so many of the euphemisms for drunk (smashed, bombed , etc.) etc.) also refer to destruction:
Presumably, these are alternative euphemisms for a "peacekeeping" mission in a "permissive environment."
Ground War Euphemisms
Also absent is comment on the borrowing of terms as dysphemisms (or as euphemisms): for example, gurry is a neutral term for the gut(s) (or, if you prefer, entrails) of an eviscerated fish, but it becomes cynically dysphemistic when used, as it is in medical slang, to refer to human organs or parts removed in surgery.