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Jimmy Carter, 2004 Democratic National Convention Address ( http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/convention2004/jimmycarter2004dnc.htm )

There is certainly space between “you are acting from motives of cowardice” and “you are committing cowardly acts.” The words “cowardice” and “coward” are used for both, perhaps unfortunately. If that makes people misunderstand the situation, that’s too bad. It would certainly be wrong for anyone to conclude that because terrorists* blow up innocents, they are “sissies.”

I don’t think anyone thinks that, but you are free to imagine those who listen to Bush are under this delusion. It wouldn’t be wrong, however, to deny that people who do these acts are transgressing widespread cultural norms against attacking the defenseless. Contra the comment above, to attempt to delegitimize someone’s chosen form of attack is not the same thing as “demonizing” them or failing to understand them. You can understand a terrorist without denying that terrorism is cowardly.

I haven’t had time to do a thorough search, but I think you can dig up quite a few examples of this usage. You can start with Google Book Search on “cowardly act” and “Pearl harbor.” ( http://books.google.com/books?q=%22cowardly+attack%22+%22pearl+harbor%22&btnG=Search+Books ) Athough he didn’t use the word in his Pearl Harbor address, Roosevelt, did speak of the attack as a “dastardly,” which the (HMCO) dictionary defines as “Cowardly and malicious.” Roosevelt was characterizing the circumstances of the attack, not whether the Japanese pilots were personally chickenhearted.

*The situation in Iraq is complicated by the fact that “terrorist” is applied to some activities which, being aimed at troops, wouldn’t normally fall under the term. This is partially slander and lazy language and partially about substantial crossover between people and groups who do this and those who engaged in more traditional terrorist activities, mostly against Shiites.

As to the specific term “cowards” bear in mind that “pirates” has been appropriated to discourage fulling realizing the benefits of digital technology. Political campaigns use a full spectrum of negative appellation but, interestingly, “coward” rarely appears here. It is available for foreign policy purposes.

“General Cornwallis of the British, this is General Washington of the Continental Army.”

“General Washington of the Continental Army, this is General Cornwallis of the British.”

“If you’d shake hands, gentlemen.”

“O.K., British call the toss.”

“British called heads, it is tails.”

“General Washington, what are you gonna do?”

“General Washington says his troops will dress however they wish, in any color, in buckskins and coonskin caps, and hide behind the rocks and trees and shoot out at random.”

“British, you will all wear bright red, all shoot at the same time, and march forward in a straight line.”