I might have thought that this one was made up by The Onion. Alas. The Washington Post reported this item, that should turn anyone who is half-conscious or has even a shred of intellectual honesty into a cynic:
The Obama administration appears to be backing away from the phrase "global war on terror," a signature rhetorical legacy of its predecessor.
In a memo e-mailed this week to Pentagon staff members, the Defense Department's office of security review noted that "this administration prefers to avoid using the term 'Long War' or 'Global War on Terror' [GWOT.] Please use 'Overseas Contingency Operation.' "
And the stand-up comics lamented the passing of the Bush Administration. Bwaaaahahahahaha! The White House is always a barrel of laughs.
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Sometimes, when a whole bunch of political people who think exactly alike are sitting around, stuff like this ends up becoming policy.
Somebody needs an "Office of What the F#*@ Were You Thinking?!?" to forestall gaffes like this.
Of course they want to change the description. When you tell 300 million people that you're gonna do things differently, but you plan to do the same, you need new words to describe the process. Otherwise, your lies might become even more apparent to the people who "believe" in you.
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