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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I wonder...can a soldier still suffer PTS from an “Overseas Contingency Operation”?
Overseas Contingency Operation???
Here’s the bottom Line: If no major terrorist event happens on Obama’s watch, this term will be sufficient. However, if something significant does happen, President Obama will be piloried for taking the situation too casually. My advice to everyone is to let it go. If nothing happenes, you’ll be thankful you didn’t open your big mouth. If something does happen, it’s on Obama.
‘Overseas Contingency Operation’
forget overseas what about here?? did he just cut North America out of the thing?
TERRORISTS are now called “TOURISTS” by Barry Insane Obama.
terror attacks are “man made disasters” just like ‘global warming’
We have always been at war with Eastasia.
Silly, everyone knows that WW II started when we dropped the A-Bomb on Hiro Shima on Dec. 7, 1941. Just ask Obama. Rev. Wright told him so.
This is to distinguish it from the “Domestic Contingency Operations”, i.e., when they round up the bitter clingers to guns, religion, and conservatism and ship us off to the re-education camps.
zer0bama is an Illustrious Democratic Interim Office Tennant.
TERRORISTS are now called TOURISTS by Barry Insane Obama.
Bravo!...King Dufus and his sentence gyrations has convinced Muslim terrorists we do not want to offend them!
You are BAD! Hollyhock!!!!
Nominating for Post of the Day.
For some fun acronyms, how about:
Passive Understanding and Socially Sensitive Yielding
World Unity and Sackless Sedition
Wonton Eradication of Armaments and Killing
American Servitude Secured
and,
Failed Understanding of Courage when Kindly Entering Discussions
Just my thoughts.
Liberals believe that they can somehow change the actual character of a thing by calling it something else.
I well remember how some years back, the Los Angeles city council voted to rename the hellhole of South Central Los Angeles to South Los Angeles.
Like calling terrorism a “man made disaster”, changing the name of South Central was somehow supposed to transform the actual nature of that area.
yitbos
Overseas Contingency Operation
What are the Iraqis saying about this new obama-speak?
Stand up. Don't be afraid of some stinking libs barking at you, they will do that regardless of what you do or don't do. Never Give In.
This is ALMOST as bad as “Religion of Peace”
I think its being called
TOTUS
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