Posted on 03/25/2009 7:20:07 AM PDT by pissant
The Obama administration has ordered an end to use of the phrase "Global War on Terror," a label adopted by the Bush administration shortly after the September 11, 2001 attacks, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday.
In a memo sent this week from the Defense Department's office of security to Pentagon staffers, members were told, "this administration prefers to avoid using the term 'Long War' or 'Global War on Terror' [GWOT.] Please use 'Overseas Contingency Operation.'"
A spokesman for the Office of Management and Budget, from whom the direction reportedly came, told the Post there was no guidance given from the agency and that it was merely the "opinion of a career civil servant."
The Obama administration's rhetoric has paralleled this idea, having used the "Global Contingency Operation" phrase for a month prior to the e-mail being sent.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
I have to say—Dubya did the same thing-in the speech before the joint session of Congress a week after 9-11, no less.
“These folks”
I was ready to pull an Elvis and destroy my TV set...
Would you consider your neighbor as "those folks"? You would wouldn't you?
Well, guess who Obama's neighbors are in Chicago?
Like Planned Parenthood?
Hussein is a total wuss.
True. They make it sound milder than a strongly worded UN resolution.
Yea, I can imagine ANSWER & Code Pinkos stumbling through that!
I guess this means the Threat Level is pink.
Smooth move Ex-lax!...’Overseas Contingency Operation’?...That changes everything, Pantywaste!....now it sounds like we are not fighting throat slitters anymore!
At this point he may as well have called it “Operation We Surrender”.
That’s one good example.
Freedom of Choice Act
Employee Free Choice Act
Dilation and Extraction (murder of a fully formed human baby)
Stop This Endless Overseas Contingency?
How about Contingencies Against Combative Aliens?
...and President Stinkweed is a “Domestic Threat Operation”....
DNC
scary coincidence
Obama Scraps ‘Global War on Terror’ for ‘Overseas Contingency Operation’
Whew!!!!! I thought that war would never end. Next problem please. /s
How will this moniker reflect those who attack the US here once again?
They will not be terrorists but some type of agitator from overseas?
Political correctness and Muslim appeasement run amok.
We have a child who is running this country.
The chilling thing is that if we are attacked with nukes by North Koreans or Iranians, I seriously doubt this child would allow out military to properly respond(nuke ‘em back).
Oh, I forgot, Eric Holder promised to prosecute any terrorists he finds and catches.
That makes us really safe, doesn’t it?
Could you just see the presidents of the past calling WWI and WWII “Overseas Contingency Operations!” Fer cryin out loud.
I didn’t find the thread that was specifically about the left using language to cover up the evil that they support,
but this one is pretty good - liberal lexicon of libberish:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/673701/posts
I am sure the terrorists will get the memo.
And hey, someone tell the US Military the war is over, they are fighting a “OCO” now.
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