Want more proof that the Democrats can't be trusted to battle terror?
From the Military Times:
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.”
“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.”
Oh, no. Of course not. No political intent at all.
Yeah, right.
"War on Terror" isn't a catch phrase. It's the reality of the post-9/11 world.
The Dems perceive the War on Terror as a construct of the Bush administration utilized for political purposes to win elections.
Naturally, they want to do away with references to something they see as advantageous to the Republicans.
How incredibly self-serving, not to mention myopic!
The Dems don't get that the enemies of the United States are loving what they're doing, this softening of our resolve.
If the 9/11 attacks weren't enough to wake up the Dems that we are at war with Islamic radicals, then I don't think anything will.
It is a global war without traditional boundaries.
The Dems don't get it.
Maybe they do get it. They just don't want you to get it.
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