U.S. Officials Retool Slogan for Terror War (TGSATEOF,TEOC)

[Rose Siding]

The Bush administration is retooling its slogan for the fight against Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups, pushing the idea that the long-term struggle is as much an ideological battle as a military mission, senior administration and military officials said Monday.

In recent speeches and news conferences, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and the nation's senior military officer have spoken of "a global struggle against violent extremism" rather than "the global war on terror," which had been the catchphrase of choice. Administration officials say that phrase may have outlived its usefulness, because it focused attention solely, and incorrectly, on the military campaign.
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Administration and Pentagon officials say the revamped campaign has grown out of meetings of President Bush's senior national security advisers that began in January, and it reflects the evolution in Mr. Bush's own thinking nearly four years after the Sept. 11 attacks.

Mr. Rumsfeld spoke in the new terms on Friday when he addressed an audience in Annapolis, Md., for the retirement ceremony of Adm. Vern Clark as chief of naval operations. Mr. Rumsfeld described America's efforts as it "wages the global struggle against the enemies of freedom, the enemies of civilization."

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/26/politics/26strategy.html?

TGSATEOF,TEOC! :patriot:

[Stephanie]

1. That's obscene

It's obscene that they have slogans, think about slogans, re-work slogans.

[Jara sang]

2. just who are they waging this physiological warfare with?

Never mind I know... It's us.

[Frederik]

3. bwahahaha

They should just give it a rest.

[Trillo]

4. Well when are the leaders gonna start after the corporatists

and thier outrageous 'concentration of capital?'

"Concentration of Capital" is an enemy of freedom, isn't it?

[liberal N proud]

5. If they are going to stop extremism they had better start at home

With the fundamental reich wing!
Some of them down home boys can get quite violent.

[BlueEyedSon]

6. Thought Bush renamed it last year (TSAIEWDNBIFSA WHTUTAAWTT TSTCOTFW)

("the struggle against ideological extremists who do not believe in free societies and who happen to use terror as a weapon to try to shake the conscience of the free world")

link: http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1569423,00.html

[unrepuke]

7. Are they testing a new writer, in case Karl takes a "vacation"?

[Mojorabbit]

8. All the better to use the patriot act on citizens eom