Dems Ban "Global War On Terror"
The House Armed Services Committee is banishing the global war on terror from the 2008 defense budget.
This is not because the war has been won, lost or even called off, but because the committee’s Democratic leadership doesn’t like the phrase.
A memo for the committee staff, circulated March 27, says the 2008 bill and its accompanying explanatory report that will set defense policy should be specific about military operations and “avoid using colloquialisms.”
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Committee staff members are told in the memo to use specific references to specific operations instead of the Bush administration’s catch phrases. The memo, written by Staff Director Erin Conaton, provides examples of acceptable phrases, such as “the war in Iraq,” the “war in Afghanistan, “operations in the Horn of Africa” or “ongoing military operations throughout the world.”
“There was no political intent in doing this,” said a Democratic aide who asked not to be identified. “We were just trying to avoid catch phrases.”
Josh Holly, a spokesman for Rep. Duncan Hunter of California, the committee’s former chairman and now its senior Republican, said Republicans “were not consulted” about the change.
My guess this has lot more to do with avoiding the war in Iraq being lumped into the War on Terror. The useless little knaves have been crying for years about how Iraq isn't part of the War on Terror because they never attacked us. Afghanistan never attacked us either, but the terrorists they were harboring, did. This is about terrorism and the countries that harbor them.
The Dems are also terrorist sympathizers so they also want to avoid using the term 'terror' and 'terrorism'.
