Thanks, Steve Colbert, for tonight's WORD - THE LONG WAR

[paineinthearse]

Emmy-worthy, can't wait for the streaming video. Should be at http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/the_colbert_report/videos/the_word/index.jhtml some time tomorrow.

Colbert's THE WORD tonight exposed Rumsfeld's use on the latest word to describe the Messopotamia - THE LONG WAR.

I used Google's advanced feature to look up instances of "the long war", source site dod.gov.

http://www.google.com/search?q=+%22the+long+war%22+site:dod.gov&hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all&start=10&sa=N

Results:

DefenseLINK News: Info Is as Important as Ammo in 'Long War ...The change is needed as the United States faces the Long War. The general hastened to point out that the Long War does not mean servicemembers will be ...
www.dod.gov/news/Jan2006/20060124_3992.html - 40k - Cached - Similar pages


DefenseLINK News: Military Culture Must Change to Fight 'Long War'The Long War will require different military capabilities and require US leaders ... As part of the Long War mindset, the military is moving more toward an ...
www.dod.gov/news/Jan2006/20060123_3984.html - 40k - Cached - Similar pages


DefenseLINK News: Quadrennial Review Allows DoD to Make 'Vector ...John Abizaid, head of US Central Command, has called "the long war. ... "In the long war, it's important to assist in creating police forces and armed ...
www.dod.gov/news/Feb2006/20060203_4096.html - 42k - Cached - Similar pages


DefenseLINK News: Rumsfeld Speaks on Process Behind Budget, QDRRumsfeld said the Long War, "also has the effect of transforming the way our forces ... Progress in Iraq and Afghanistan will help to win the Long War. ...
www.dod.gov/news/Feb2006/20060207_4137.html - 43k - Cached - Similar pages


US Department of Defense Official Website2, 2006 — The Quadrennial Defense Review will shift the strategic direction of the US armed forces to help the United States win the long war against ...
www.dod.gov/qdr/ - 46k - Cached - Similar pages


DefenseLINK News: Americans Must Understand US Is at War, General SaysInformation is just as critical as firepower in the long war, Odierno said, and this, too, ... The enemy in the long war is not a traditional foe. ...
www.dod.gov/news/Jan2006/20060118_3952.html - 38k - Cached - Similar pages


DefenseLINK News: Terror War Strategy Goes Beyond Iraq and Afghanistan"So as we talk about the long war, we talk about re-posturing ourselves to a smaller, more expeditionary, more capable force, but one that is drawn from ...
www.dod.gov/news/Nov2005/20051129_3472.html - 39k - Cached - Similar pages


DoD News: DoD News Briefing with Secretary Rumsfeld and Adm ...Q Well, how did you settle on the phrase "the long war"? ... Q One clarification on "the long war." Is Iraq going to be a long war? ...
www.dod.gov/transcripts/2006/tr20060201-12403.html - 94k - Cached - Similar pages


DoD News: Fiscal 2007 Department of Defense Budget is Released... “the fiscal 2007 budget reflects the department’s continuum of change as we defend our nation, engage in the long war against terrorist extremism, ...
www.dod.gov/releases/2006/nr20060206-12435.html - 37k - Cached - Similar pages


DefenseLINK News: Abizaid Details al Qaeda's Long-Term GoalsThe "long war against terror" will be won by "self-reliant partners in the region who are willing to face the enemy within their own countries," he said. ...
www.dod.gov/news/Sep2005/20050929_2887.html - 39k - Cached - Similar pages


DefenseLINK News: Redeploying Forces Now Would Embolden Terrorists ..."In the long war against terrorists and violent extremists ... what makes out country so special is our free way of life. And that, of course, is precisely ...
www.dod.gov/news/Dec2005/20051224_3742.html - 42k - Cached - Similar pages


DoD News: News Briefing with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld ...And then if you go to the long war -- and the long war is to get to the point ... But over time they'll replace people, and that's why the long war issue is ...
www.dod.gov/transcripts/2005/tr20050927-secdef3981.html - 77k - Cached - Similar pages


DoD News: News Briefing with Sec. Rumsfeld and Gen. Pace... met here at the Pentagon to discuss the long war that we face against violent extremists and how to better arrange the Department of Defense for future ...
www.dod.gov/transcripts/2006/tr20060112-12303.html - 101k - Cached - Similar pages


DoD News: Secretary Rumsfeld Remarks on Fox News Sunday with Tony SnowAnd he designed a plan that was prepared for the long war, but was ready to take advantage of a shorter war. And by that I mean that he had a mix of forces ...
www.dod.gov/transcripts/2003/t03302003_t0330sdfox.html - 55k - Cached - Similar pages


DoD News: SEDM News Briefing with Secretary Donald H. RumsfeldRUMSFELD: Well, there's no question but that the 90-nation coalition that's engaged in the global war on terror, the long war, is putting enormous pressure ...
www.dod.gov/transcripts/2005/tr20051206-secdef4423.html - 82k - Cached - Similar pages

Yup, it looks like Rummy has a catch title for the next 70 year's war.

[Marie26]

1. It's just Orwellian

Here's another "Long War":

"Winston could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war, but it was evident that there had been a fairly long interval of peace during his childhood, because one of his early memories was of an air raid which appeared to take everyone by surprise. ... Since about that time, war had been literally continuous, though strictly speaking it had not always been the same war... But to trace out the history of the whole period, to say who was fighting whom at any given moment, would have been utterly impossible, since no written record, and no spoken word, ever made mention of any other alignment than the existing one. At this moment, for example, in 1984 (if it was 1984), Oceania was at war with Eurasia and in alliance with Eastasia. In no public or private utterance was it ever admitted that the three powers had at any time been grouped along different lines. Actually, as Winston well knew, it was only four years since Oceania had been at war with Eastasia and in alliance with Eurasia. But that was merely a piece of furtive knowledge which he happened to possess because his memory was not satisfactorily under control. Officially the change of partners had never happened. Oceania was at war with Eurasia: therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.

"The Party said that Oceania had never been in alliance with Eurasia. He, Winston Smith, knew that Oceania had been in alliance with Eurasia as short a time as four years ago. But where did that knowledge exist? Only in his own consciousness, which in any case must soon be annihilated. And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed -if all records told the same tale -- then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past,' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.' And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered. Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting. It was quite simple. All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory. 'Reality control', they called it: in Newspeak, 'doublethink'."

George Orwell, 1984.
http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/1984/3/

[fujiyama]

2. It's really funny

The word is the best part of his show.

[paineinthearse]

3. Video.....

not yet on Comedy Central website. Anyone know how long it takes for a "Word" segment to be posted?

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4. 1020 Google news hits

Google newsed "long war", got 1020 hits: Results 1 - 10 of about 1,020 for long-war

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=%22long+war%22&ie=UTF-8&scoring=d

Bush's Mysterious 'New Programs'
ZNet, MA - 40 minutes ago
... on the administration's perception that the battle over information would be a crucial front in the War on Terror, or as Rumsfeld calls it, the Long War. ...

Iran infiltrators being sent to Iraq, Rumsfeld reports
Cleveland Plain Dealer, OH - 1 hour ago
... Rumsfeld offered few details concerning his allegation of interference by Iran, which fought a nearly decade-long war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq in the 1980s ...

Rumsfeld accuses Iran of sending Paramilitary forces into Iraq
Zee News, India - 1 hour ago
... Rumsfeld offered few details about his allegation of interference by Iran, which fought an eight-year-long war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq in the 1980s and ...

Local Reservists say board's work has high stakes
The Courier-Journal, IN - 4 hours ago
... structure. His message: The current over-reliance on the reserve component of the military in a long-war scenario is not sustainable. ...

Only 3 of 4 peacemaker-hostages on Al-Jazeera tape
Spero News - 4 hours ago
... In its statement, the CPT blamed the abduction on the US occupation. "Many in Iraq have experienced this long war as terrorism," it said. ...

"This Place is Broken"
Truthdig, United States - 5 hours ago
... Those days, there was the Kaiser, he was no worse than the French leaders, so it was just a continuation of that long war that had gone on and off and on for ...

Western hostages in Iraq plead for help
Gulf Times, Qatar - 5 hours ago
... "Many in Iraq have experienced this long war as terrorism. The occupation must end.". It raised concern about Fox’s absence in the video. ...

Christian peacemakers say Bush and Blair responsible for abduction ...
Ekklesia, UK - 5 hours ago
... and occupation of Iraq. Many in Iraq have experienced this long war as terrorism. The occupation must end. Work. towards this is ...

Jay Bennish: Anti-Bush…and Anti-Israel
IsraPundit, Israel - 7 hours ago
... of murderers–with a country like Iraq that in the past has been aggressive towards fellow Moslem countries, attacking Kuwait and being in a long war with Iran ...

Rumsfeld accuses Iran of sending paramilitary forces into Iraq
North County Times, CA - 9 hours ago
... Rumsfeld offered few details concerning his allegation of interference by Iran, which fought a nearly decade-long war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq in the 1980s ...

[Catchawave]

5. A kick for Colbert....

...watching the re-air now, very funny segment.