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Clinton: Administration Has Stopped Using 'War on Terror' Term
Fox / Politics ^ | 03/30/2009 | EagleUSA

Posted on 03/30/2009 3:16:32 PM PDT by EagleUSA

THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- The phrase "global war on terror" is finished, at least as far as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is concerned.

The top U.S. diplomat told reporters Tuesday that the Obama administration has quit using that line to describe the effort to fight terrorism around the world.

"The administration has stopped using the phrase and I think that speaks for itself," Clinton said.

Clinton spoke as she headed to Europe for a week of diplomatic meetings. The phrase "war on terror" is widely disliked in Europe and elsewhere overseas, where even close U.S. allies suggested it was overly militaristic and perhaps counterproductive.

It is also now associated with a range of Bush-era policies such as harsh interrogation practices that Obama has pledged to abandon.

Clinton was asked about the phrase as she headed to Europe for a week of diplomatic meetings.

She said the absence of the "war on terror" language speaks for itself. Pundits have noted the absence, but top administration figures have had little to say on the subject before now.

"I haven't heard it used. I haven't gotten any directive about using it or not using it, it's just not being used," Clinton said.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhogwot; enemies; pandering; soshillary; weakness; whocareswhatheythink
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So very weak and sick. Brings back the horrid memories of the Carter and Clinton administrations -- but I think this administration will outdo both of the earlier weaklings and fools combined.
1 posted on 03/30/2009 3:16:32 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: EagleUSA

More pre 9/11 thinking. They are going to get a lot of Americans killed, again.


2 posted on 03/30/2009 3:18:49 PM PDT by WakeUpAndVote (Fump!)
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To: WakeUpAndVote

More pre 9/11 thinking. They are going to get a lot of Americans killed, again.
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How many have to die, before the STUPID AND BLIND liberal electorate wake up to what they have done, and continue to do??


3 posted on 03/30/2009 3:20:40 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: EagleUSA

As long as we don’t call them terrorists, there will be no terrorism, just a lot of dead people from freak accidents.


4 posted on 03/30/2009 3:20:42 PM PDT by Always Right (Obama: more arrogant than Bill Clinton, more naive than Jimmy Carter, and more liberal than LBJ.)
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To: EagleUSA

Yeah, and the “Please Don’t Hate Us and Kill Us Anymore” video President Obama sent to the Iranians worked ever so well. The mullahs are still laughing it off.


5 posted on 03/30/2009 3:24:41 PM PDT by Reaganesque
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By changing the terminology, they have scored a victory over it, in their own twisted way of thinking.

Since "terrorism" no longer exists....problem solved!"

6 posted on 03/30/2009 3:26:52 PM PDT by capt. norm (Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups.)
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To: Always Right
As long as we don’t call them terrorists, there will be no terrorism, just a lot of dead people from freak accidents.

This sums up the Obama administration perfectly.

Oh for sure people will be just as dead, but at least we won't be under attack by a fanatical enemy hell bent on our complete destruction.

There are no terrorists. Just followers of the religion of peace that we haven't met yet.

7 posted on 03/30/2009 3:27:34 PM PDT by OpeEdMunkey (We seem to have reached a critical mass of stupid people.)
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To: EagleUSA
THE WAR ON TERROR HAS BEEN CHANGED TO:

"Changing hearts and minds with Obamaphonics trillions of tax dollars."

8 posted on 03/30/2009 3:27:59 PM PDT by BigFinn (Obamanation then Obamaggedon.)
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So will Obama, Clinton & Co. stop using the war analogy when it comes to drugs, poverty, homelessness, AID’s etc.? What is the world-wide fight against terrorism going to be called? And are they still using the term “terrorist” in any capacity at all?


9 posted on 03/30/2009 3:30:36 PM PDT by torchthemummy (If You Still Have A TV Subscription You Are Funding The Socialist Takeover!)
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To: EagleUSA

They stopped the war also.

LLS


10 posted on 03/30/2009 3:31:20 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (hussein will NEVER be my President... NEVER!!!)
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To: EagleUSA

The current administration has shifted its focus—

The new name of its campaign is “The War on America”


11 posted on 03/30/2009 3:33:10 PM PDT by Mac from Cleveland (How to make a small fortune in the Obama era--first, start off with a big fortune....)
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To: Always Right
REMEMBER WHEN..Oldies but goodies...?


“No matter what the greatest tyrant in the world, the greatest terrorist in the world" -George W. Bush, we’re here to tell you: "Not hundreds, not thousands, but millions of the American people ... support your revolution,” Belafonte told Chavez during the broadcast."

Where was Clinton & Friends' outrage then?

12 posted on 03/30/2009 3:33:25 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay
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To: EagleUSA

I don’t imagine that they will substitute “War against Islamic Facism”? If they did, I’d support that.


13 posted on 03/30/2009 3:35:32 PM PDT by Tallguy ("The sh- t's chess, it ain't checkers!" -- Alonzo (Denzel Washington) in "Training Day")
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They’ll probbaly change it to something more like,
“Re-education campaign for unfriendly Muslims.”


14 posted on 03/30/2009 3:41:09 PM PDT by Rennes Templar
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To: EagleUSA

I say rename the terrorists as “those annoying and misunderstood neighbors”


15 posted on 03/30/2009 3:43:21 PM PDT by Smedley (It's a sad day for American capitalism when a man can't fly a midget on a kite over Central Park)
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To: EagleUSA

Mrs. Clinton, you are a political whore.
And that is the best I can say of ya there enabler.


16 posted on 03/30/2009 3:49:50 PM PDT by Joe Boucher (An enemy of Islam)
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To: EagleUSA

Yes, the Left really cares about their future executioners.

The suicidal Left is the reason we will be hit, again...and again.


17 posted on 03/30/2009 3:52:28 PM PDT by wac3rd (In the end, we all are Conservative, some just need their lives jolted to realize that fact.)
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To: EagleUSA

A Clinton is still a Clinton -— a driveling idiot just like the Imposter-in-Chief


18 posted on 03/30/2009 3:56:57 PM PDT by texican01
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To: EagleUSA

Obama has changed the war on terror to the war on the free markets.


19 posted on 03/30/2009 3:57:57 PM PDT by dancusa (Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.)
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To: EagleUSA

If an American city is nuked by terrorists, did it ever really exist?


20 posted on 03/30/2009 4:03:32 PM PDT by 6SJ7 (atlasShruggedInd: ON)
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