Using the term "terrorist" to describe a health systemn that kills people is indeed rhetoric. But using the word to describe people who have been responsible for massacres and torture is not, because that's what terrorism means, whoever does it.

"Terrorism" isn't about whether you are properly described as a regular soldier or a police officer or a partisan or a freedom fighter. It is about what you actually do. A terrorist is someone who is responsible for acts of terrorism, not someone who belongs to a particular type of organisation.
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Strictly speaking, Bobert, there is no "School of the Americas".

In 2001 it ceased to exist. In its place was set up the "Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation", which is still doing exactly the same thing, usingbthe same buildings. Here is their sanitised home page. describedThis includes various interesting links, including one to this archived School of the Americas site.

Including a speech headlined "The School that Will Never Die" explaining about the change of name.

It also includes a lot of stuff that bears reading, such as a case study of the My Lai Massacre.

Also a discussion of the criteria for a just war. (Under which it seems pretty clear that the war on Iraq would not fall within the definition of a just war supposedly accepted by the army: "Preemptive attack is also considered morally justified, if the case can be made that such an attack prevented an imminent aggression, and if other criteria can be satisfied. Military force can also be used to rescue nationals in danger in other countries, and to prevent or deter terrorist acts. However the ethics of war – as well as legal custom – do not permit attacking terrorists for purposes of punishment/retaliation."