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Obama Scraps 'Global War on Terror' for 'Overseas Contingency Operation'
Fox ^ | 3/25/09 | staff

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.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: larrysinclairslover; marxistquisling; obama; wot
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To: Puppage

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...


21 posted on 03/25/2009 7:35:19 AM 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: Puppage
"Let's review, shall we.....he called terrorists those folks"

Would you consider your neighbor as "those folks"? You would wouldn't you?

Well, guess who Obama's neighbors are in Chicago?


22 posted on 03/25/2009 7:36:14 AM PDT by lormand
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To: MrB

Like Planned Parenthood?


23 posted on 03/25/2009 7:36:51 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: pissant

Hussein is a total wuss.


24 posted on 03/25/2009 7:38:17 AM PDT by Old Grumpy
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To: ozark hilljilly
“Overseas Contingency Operation” They make it sound like some sort of UNICEF program.

True. They make it sound milder than a strongly worded UN resolution.

25 posted on 03/25/2009 7:45:18 AM PDT by TurtleUp (Turtle up: cancel optional spending until 2012, and boycott TARP/stimulus companies forever!)
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To: andy58-in-nh
"No more Overseas Contingency!!... No more Overseas Contingency!!"

Yea, I can imagine ANSWER & Code Pinkos stumbling through that!

26 posted on 03/25/2009 7:46:54 AM PDT by 24-7Freeper
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To: pissant

I guess this means the Threat Level is pink.


27 posted on 03/25/2009 7:49:41 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: pissant

Smooth move Ex-lax!...’Overseas Contingency Operation’?...That changes everything, Pantywaste!....now it sounds like we are not fighting throat slitters anymore!


28 posted on 03/25/2009 7:49:52 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Old Grumpy

At this point he may as well have called it “Operation We Surrender”.


29 posted on 03/25/2009 7:50:20 AM PDT by 24-7Freeper
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To: al baby

That’s one good example.
Freedom of Choice Act
Employee Free Choice Act

Dilation and Extraction (murder of a fully formed human baby)


30 posted on 03/25/2009 7:50:54 AM PDT by MrB (irreconcilable: One of two or more conflicting ideas or beliefs that cannot be brought into harmony.)
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To: 24-7Freeper

Stop This Endless Overseas Contingency?


31 posted on 03/25/2009 7:51:13 AM PDT by NMEwithin
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To: pissant

How about Contingencies Against Combative Aliens?


32 posted on 03/25/2009 7:51:40 AM PDT by paulycy (BEWARE the LIBERAL/MEDIA Complex)
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To: NMEwithin

...and President Stinkweed is a “Domestic Threat Operation”....


33 posted on 03/25/2009 7:53:15 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: MrB
D and C

DNC

scary coincidence

34 posted on 03/25/2009 7:53:26 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: pissant

Obama Scraps ‘Global War on Terror’ for ‘Overseas Contingency Operation’

Whew!!!!! I thought that war would never end. Next problem please. /s


35 posted on 03/25/2009 7:55:50 AM PDT by Joan Kerrey
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To: pissant

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?


36 posted on 03/25/2009 7:57:31 AM PDT by bestintxas (It's great in Texas)
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To: NMEwithin
Overseas Contingency - RUN AWAY!!
37 posted on 03/25/2009 7:59:18 AM PDT by 24-7Freeper
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To: pissant

Could you just see the presidents of the past calling WWI and WWII “Overseas Contingency Operations!” Fer cryin out loud.


38 posted on 03/25/2009 7:59:58 AM PDT by Old Grumpy
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To: al baby

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


39 posted on 03/25/2009 7:59:58 AM PDT by MrB (irreconcilable: One of two or more conflicting ideas or beliefs that cannot be brought into harmony.)
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To: pissant

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.


40 posted on 03/25/2009 8:07:30 AM PDT by Names Ash Housewares (Refusing to kneel before the socialist messiah. 1-20-13 Freedom Day.)
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