"Never has an administration spent so much time creating, defining, or redefining terms. The Bush administration named our global enemy "terrorism" and called the acts that followed a "war," which was soon given the moniker "the global war on terror" (later reduced to the acronym GWOT, also known as World War IV), which was then given an instant future – being defined as a "generational struggle" that was still to come. All this, along with "war" itself, was simply announced rather than officially "declared."

 

Given that we were (by administration definition) at war, it should have been self-evident that those we captured in our "war" on terrorism would then be "prisoners of war," but no such luck for them, since their rights would in that case have been clearly defined in international treaties signed by the United States. So the Bush administration opened its Devil's Dictionary and came up with a new, tortured term for our new prisoners, "unlawful combatants," which really stood for: We can do anything we want to you in a place of our choosing."

 

this is just one example of the many alterations currently being made. the definition of words are changing so rapidly its hard to keep up therefore we have composed, for your benifit, this FREE pocket size sample dictionary with all the essential words and their definitions:

 

 

Abuse n: Modern word for what was once referred to as torture. An interim term, soon to be replaced by "tough love" (which, in turn, is expected to be replaced by "freedom's caress").

 

 

 

"Burning Bush": A biblical allusion to the response of the president of the United States when asked a question by a journalist who has not been paid to inquire.

 

Checks and Balances: The system whereby the campaign checks of the few balance the interests of the many.

 

China: See Wal-Mart.

 

Death n: An increasingly rare phenomenon, no longer occurring among soldiers of the U.S. army or civilians in affected countries. However, the media reports that death is still caused by lone gunmen and over-consumption of saturated fats as well as natural disasters.

 

Democracy n: 1. A product so extensively exported that the domestic supply is depleted. 2. When they vote for us. (See, tyranny: When they vote for someone else.)3. A country where the newspapers are pro-American.

 

Free Speech Zone: The area to which those who differ from the administration are confined should they be so audacious as to wish to exercise their right of free speech.

 

Free Press: 1. Government propaganda materials covertly funded with a quarter of a billion dollars of taxpayer money but given out for free to the press and then broadcast without any acknowledgment of the government's role in their preparation. 2. Newspapers that obscure the truth on behalf of corporate and government interests for free.

 

Homeland n: A term successfully used by the Germans and the Soviets in World War II, less successfully (and in the plural) by Apartheid-era South Africa. It means neither home, nor land, has replaced both country and nation in American public speech, and is seldom wielded without the companion word "security." It is the place to which imperial forces return for R&R.

 

 

 

Homeland Security Department: The new Defense Department, known for declaring bridges yellow and the Statue of Liberty orange.

 

 

 

Homeland Security Advisory System: Color-coded program for emotional destabilization.

 

House of Representatives: Exclusive club, entry fee $1 to $5 million.

 

 

 

Intelligence n: What Dick Cheney wants and the CIA must provide – or else. (See, Iraq, weapons of mass destruction)

 

 

 

Leave No Child Behind: Social class divide maintenance system

 

Liberal adj: Widely used after the words progressive, radical, left, revolutionary, and insurrectionary were banned from the mainstream media, having the double benefit of making moderates seem vaguely dangerous and making revolutionaries seem vaguely embarrassing and ineffectual. Liberal media: Ted Koppel and anarchist zines.

 

Mandate: 1. The opinion expressed by about a quarter of the eligible voters. 2. The opinion reflected in an electoral-vote margin smaller than in any 20th century election other than 1916 and 2000. 3. The opinion expressed by the smallest popular vote margin obtained by a sitting president since 1916

 

March of Freedom Around the World: John Negroponte's career.

 

Nationalism n: How foreigners love their country (when they do). A very dangerous phenomenon that can lead to extremes of passion, blindness, and xenophobia. (See, Terrorism)

 

 

 

Negroponte, John: Good diplomat, in the sense that Pol Pot is a good family-planner

 

Oil n: 1. Black gold. 2. (defunct acronym) Operation Iraqi Liberation or OIL (name changed to Operation Iraqi Freedom, OIF, without explanation). 3. What the Bush administration wasn't after in Iraq and isn't after in Iran. (See, Democracy)

 

 

 

Ownership Society: You no longer own your national parks, your public transit, your commons, your government, your Bill of Rights, or your future, but you may purchase a Burger King franchise or some stocks with your Wal-Mart earnings.

 

Peace n: What war is for.

 

Patriotism n: How Americans love their country. A trait so positive you can't have too much of it, and if you do, then you are a super-patriot which couldn't be better. (Foreigners cannot be patriotic. See, Nationalism)

 

 

 

Pentagon n: Formerly, the Defense Department, but since we now have a new defense department (see, Homeland Security Department), soon be renamed the Global Forward Deployment Department or GFDD (Ge-Fudd). Its forward-deployed headquarters will be established in a two-sided building, the Duogon, now being constructed in Bahrain out of sand imported from the beaches of Texas by Halliburton subsidiary KBR. From there, it plans to rule the known world.

 

Public Opinion Polls: Progress reports for spin doctors.

 

Republican Party: A party that assails the foundations of the Republic, attacking the balance and separation of powers (See, Assertions of Untrammeled Presidential Authority – to violate domestic and international laws forbidding torture); habeas corpus (See, Assertion of Right to Lock Away "Enemy Combatants" Forever – without due process of law); and federalism (See, Legislative and Executive Rampage – to overturn state court decisions in the Terri Schiavo case).

 

Rummy slang: 1. (archaic) A person so drunk he can't recall a thing. 2. (modern) A SECDEF so drunk on power that he refuses to remember anything.

 

Security n: Something to be applied to the homeland but not to the social.

 

Senate n: Exclusive club, entry fee $10 to $30 million.

 

Shock and Awe: A classic combination like "surf and turf"; special effects produced at missile point by the U.S. military. (See, State Terrorism).

 

Social Security: A good idea except for two problems: Social verges on socialism and guarantees of security violate a free market.

 

The Marketplace of Ideas: Buy low, sell high.

 

Town-hall Meeting: A meeting in a hall in a town where all the participants have first been vetted for loyalty to the Bush administration..

 

Wal-Mart: The nation-state, future tense.

 

Washington Press Corps: Extension of White House and Pentagon press offices.

 

Wilderness n: 1. Publicly owned former habitat for wildlife, often endangered, where private corporations go wild drilling for oil and gas, grazing cattle, logging, and building roads. 2. Off-road vehicle theme parks characterized by abundant stumps, oil slicks, tire tracks, flattened owls, and coughing caribou.

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i know its too long..i usually dont read posts which are longer than a paragraph here....i was going to cut it down..but its all good so and i couldnt decide what to keep and what to chuck out.....besides if ppl read it great...if not....then they dont...meh.

just try not to be too lazy ppl...its worth the time....besides ..u might actually learn something.

post of the year!! :laugh3:

In war, the best idea is to bomb the hell out of the other country.