no,not the action...just the phrase....
""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.”
The “global war on terror,” a phrase first used by President Bush shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the U.S., should not be used, according to the memo. Also banned is the phrase the “long war,” which military officials began using last year as a way of acknowledging that military operations against terrorist states and organizations would not be wrapped up in a few years.
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.”"
and this just came down the pike from britain...
Britain stops talk of `War On Terror`
""Cabinet ministers have been told by the Foreign Office to drop the phrase 'war on terror' and other terms seen as liable to anger British Muslims and increase tensions more broadly in the Islamic world.
Other critics said that it was too 'military' and did not adequately describe the nature of the diverse efforts made to counter the new threat.""
they can`t put off easter vacation to hack out funding for the troops...but,they have the time to throw together a 15-page document entitled "style guide for defense authorization report"?........
it`s all the fault of those cowards back in 1942.....don`t you remember?...:idea:
"congress mandates that there is no "world war II" only a war in europe, a war in north africa, operations in the south pacific, operations in the north pacific, hostilities in asia"..........
maybe we can rename the terrorists "unhappy bunnies"...
whew....i`m glad that`s all over with...thank you dems....
""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.”
The “global war on terror,” a phrase first used by President Bush shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the U.S., should not be used, according to the memo. Also banned is the phrase the “long war,” which military officials began using last year as a way of acknowledging that military operations against terrorist states and organizations would not be wrapped up in a few years.
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.”"
and this just came down the pike from britain...
Britain stops talk of `War On Terror`
""Cabinet ministers have been told by the Foreign Office to drop the phrase 'war on terror' and other terms seen as liable to anger British Muslims and increase tensions more broadly in the Islamic world.
Other critics said that it was too 'military' and did not adequately describe the nature of the diverse efforts made to counter the new threat.""
they can`t put off easter vacation to hack out funding for the troops...but,they have the time to throw together a 15-page document entitled "style guide for defense authorization report"?........
it`s all the fault of those cowards back in 1942.....don`t you remember?...:idea:
"congress mandates that there is no "world war II" only a war in europe, a war in north africa, operations in the south pacific, operations in the north pacific, hostilities in asia"..........
maybe we can rename the terrorists "unhappy bunnies"...
whew....i`m glad that`s all over with...thank you dems....
