Posted on 04/04/2007 6:49:05 PM PDT by AuntB
WASHINGTON, April 4 (UPI) -- Republicans in the U.S. Congress have protested the removal of the phrase "war on terror" from a defense budget bill.
But the Democrat who heads the Armed Services Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives has denounced their protests as a "tempest in a teapot."
The Navy Times reported Tuesday that a memorandum for the staff of the House Armed Services Committee, or HASC, that was distributed last week recommended that the language in the House version of the 2008 House Defense appropriations bill ought to "avoid using colloquialisms" and should therefore eliminate the use of the phrase "global war on terror."
The phrase came into common currency when U.S. President George W. Bush started employing it in his speeches following the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks that killed more than 2,800 people.
The Navy Times said that the memorandum instructed staffers to use language that was as specific as possible and that described individual military operations and events, instead of using such generic terms as "war on terror" or "long war."
Josh Holly, a spokesman for Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., the committee's former chairman and currently the ranking Republican on it, told the Navy Times that the GOP was "not consulted" on the issue.
However, Rep. Ike Skelton, D-Mo., the current chairman of the committee, slammed the GOP protests about the change as "the typical Republican leadership attempt to tie together the misadventure in Iraq and the overall war against terrorists."
"Providing our service members with the tools they need to protect the American people is a very serious responsibility," Skelton said. "I'm saddened that some of our GOP colleagues have chosen to create this distraction, which is a tempest in a teapot as far as I'm concerned."
The Dems prefer the phrase:
“Surrendering to islamics”
The Defeatocrats will never get it. Iraq is one front in a WORLD WAR. Not just a ‘misadventure’.
These jerkoffs really think that we, as in average Americans, are idiots.
Feels good to add a name to the list ~ not just some secretive puke editor in the MSM, but a real, flesh and blood author of treachery right there in the House of Representatives.
He's gotta' come up with a far better reason than this ~ and crawl naked on ground glass too! And even then we should probably not forgive him.
Anyone got the address of his opponents' campaign fund?
Also this article about Hunter.
Hunter & McHugh Hail Passage of the Bipartisan Wounded Warriors Assistance Act
http://www.californiachronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=23566
Legislation Aids Injured and Wounded U.S. Servicemembers.
WASHINGTON, D.C. Apr. 4 - House Armed Services Committee Ranking Republican Duncan Hunter (R-CA) and Military Personnel Subcommittee Ranking Republican John McHugh (R-NY) hailed the House passage of the bipartisan Wounded Warriors Assistance Act.
“Our brave men and women who have been injured or wounded serving their country deserve only the finest healthcare America can provide them,” said Rep. Hunter. “This bill ensures the military medical system is customer friendly and responsive to the needs of our injured warriors and their families. We create a toll-free number to call to report any deficiencies in medical support facilities. We also cap the number of cases that physical evaluation board liaison officers and medical care case managers may be assigned.”
“H.R. 1538 is an initial step to addressing the systemic shortcomings that led to the unacceptable treatment of our wounded troops at Walter Reed. Working together, we were able to quickly develop this important legislation to tackle the complex process our recovering service members and families face. We certainly owe them and their families nothing less than the reassurance that they will receive the best possible care and treatment throughout the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs,” stated Rep. McHugh.
“I’d like to thank Chairman Ike Skelton (D-MO), Rep. John McHugh (R-NY), Rep. Vic Snyder (D-AK), Rep. Steve Buyer (R-IN), Rep. Bob Filner (D-CA) and all of the members of Armed Services Committee and the Veterans Affairs Committee for their efforts in crafting this fine bill,” concluded Hunter.
Traitors and defeatists, the democrats do not even want to admit that we are fighting the war on terror, the most important war since WW II. I think that this treasonous stunt will not pass in neither the House nor the Senate, there are some democrats who will not go with it.
More Alice in Wonderland idiocy from the Dims.
Trying to ban words to eliminate problems.
“If we don’t call it that...it doesn’t exist!”
“Off with their heads!”
I have been on Bush’s case for being wimpy for the last year or so....+1 to him today for speaking up...even though he does seem distracted...i have a strange feeling he is aware of things we are not privy to...does anyone elese get this feeling or is it just me?
“Traitors and defeatists, the democrats do not even want to admit that we are fighting the war on terror”
In our own airports, no less.
Operation Bite?
It should be amended to say the “war on islamic terrorists and treasonous liberals”
How about, ‘Tiddlywinks with mean people.’
Operation Bite?
You lost me....maybe my post was stupid the way i wrote it....of course he is aware of things not revealed to the average Joe...it’s just that he seems very measured...more than usual...maybe he is just tired in the middle of his second term...he seems to have lost quite a bit of steam.
Should be renamed to the "War on Terrorism, or Terrorists, or Islamofacists"
Memo to the RATS! There is an ongoing ‘’WAR ON TERROR’’!There is a guy named George W. Bush in the whitehouse. And there was a September 11th! No matter how MUCH you would like to erase it from your PATHETIC PEA BRAINS!
I hate these people - it's like separating Iwo Jima from WW2. And in the minds of the American Sheeple, they've succeeded.
Democrats are a disgrace to constitutional government...
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