Posted on 04/04/2007 11:00:55 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
House Democrats Offer Plan to Ban Use of 'Global War on Terror'
Wednesday, April 04, 2007
WASHINGTON — House Minority Leader John Boehner blasted a Democrat-backed plan on Wednesday to ban the use of "global War on Terror" and "long war" in the 2008 defense budget bill.
A memo sent to Democratic staffers on the House Armed Services Committee instructed the aides not to use the specific phrases, the Military Times newspaper reported.
Boehner accused Democrats of launching an "absurd effort to deny the fact that America is battling terrorism on a global scale," according to a statement released Wednesday by his office.
"How do Democrats expect America to fight and win a war they deny is even taking place?" Boehner said.
Democratic leaders in the House Armed Services Committee don't like the phrases and want defense policy to be more specific and "avoid using colloquialisms," according to the report.
The memo, sent out on March 27, calls for specific references to specific operations instead of phrases used by the Bush administration.
President Bush began using the "global War on Terror" phrase after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
The memo offers replacement phrases such as "war in Iraq," "war in Afghanistan," "operations in the Horn of Africa" or "ongoing operations throughout the world."
Boehner said Democrats have a "dismal" national security record with efforts to push through non-binding resolutions against President Bush's Iraq plan, adding pork-barrel spending in unrelated legislation and leaving the nation's capital for a recess without passing legislation backed by the president with funding for U.S. troops.
"It's no wonder Democrats don't like the phrases 'global War on Terror,' they have completely failed to take the threat of global terrorism seriously," Boehner said.
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The RATS will replace it with “Global Warming War”.
Stupid is as stupid does.
Ten most famous euphemisms offered up by the left:
1. Edgy: meaning- WAY past the conventionally accepted norms of taste, modesty, morality or conscience.
2. Mean Spirited: meaning- Anything that challenges liberal ideological beliefs especially concerning the use of facts or the liberal persons own words
3. Progressive: meaning-Somewhere between the socialist ideologies of Sweden and Belarus
4. Witch Hunt: meaning-Any attempt to use documented facts, statements, actions or prior voting records to define the true intentions and motivations of a Democrat (also see mean spirited)
5. Bi-Partisanship: meaning-Completely discarding ones conservative ideas, values, initiatives and programs in favor of liberal ones
6. Modest Income enhancement: meaning-Huge tax increase
7. Income Enhancement: meaning-Governmental seizure of majority of private sector
8. Tax Cut: meaning-Giving away the goverments money (rarely used since circa 1960)
9. Disenfranchisement: meaning-Typical amount of illegal and fraudulent voting by Democrats was curtailed through enforcement of existing voting laws
10. Racially Motivated: meaning-Any action taken by the majority concerning a minority that does not strictly follow the liberal party line.
Global War on Terror?....we shall see.
http://exposingtheleft.blogspot.com/2005/02/top-10-euphemisms-of-left.html
Yep, War is Peace, freedom is slaver, and ignorance is bliss.
They’re much more afraid of Christians.
They only like using the word “war” for domestic social issues. 40+ years and they’re still waging their “War On Poverty”. How long have we fought the “War on Drugs”?
Sheeesh....the DEMS are feeling powerful...now they want to micro-manage what Pres. Bush calls things.
I wonder if they will say they don’t like the word “victory” or “winning” or “freedom” or “dictator” or “jihadists” or “terrorists” or “enemy”.
My gosh...Pres. Bush may be given a Sesame Street book to use for his thesaurus by the dems soon.
Boehner accused Democrats of launching an “absurd effort to deny the fact that America is battling terrorism on a global scale,” according to a statement released Wednesday by his office.
This does seem rather stupid, but on the other hand it would be helpful to correctly identify the enemy as jihadists.
Clearly they don’t like the words winning or victory.
This is really outrageous. When the president is up against people who are going to now quibble with what we call the war, we’re really in trouble in DC and the president needs our support more than ever.
Don’t forget:
redeployment - run like hell
phased withdrawal - wave the white flag of surrender
I would like them to replace it with what this is really about - The War Against Islamofacists, but that may "offend" some people.
Oh, and I hope the president shoves this right back in the democrat’s faces and when they return from their little vacation I hope he goes on television every single day to remind people about the global war on terror and how the Democraps have abandoned our beloved troops.
Do Democrats consider themselves Americans? I don’t think they even recognize America as anything more than a tool to mooch off of and suck dry in their lust for power and control. Marxists have no fidelity.
They don’t want to win it and they can’t afford to lose it so they pretend it doesn’t exist.
These people belong in the loony bin.
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