Obama Scraps ‘Global War on Terror’ for ‘Overseas Contingency Operation’
Obama has reportedly ordered an end to use of the phrase “Global War on Terror,” a label adopted by the Bush administration shortly after the September 11 attacks.
FOX News >> 25th March 2009
The Obama administration has ordered an end to use of the phrase “Global War on Terror,” a label adopted by the Bush administration shortly after the September 11, 2001 attacks, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday.
In a memo sent this week from the Defense Department’s office of security to Pentagon staffers, members were told, “this administration prefers to avoid using the term ‘Long War’ or ‘Global War on Terror’ [GWOT.] Please use ‘Overseas Contingency Operation.’”
A spokesman for the Office of Management and Budget, from whom the direction reportedly came, told the Post there was no guidance given from the agency and that it was merely the “opinion of a career civil servant.”
A Pentagon spokesman said there was no memo or specific directive instructing officials to stop using the ‘Global War on Terror’ phrase but acknowledged that the department has officially adopted ‘Overseas Contingency Operation’ as the new term for the war.
COMMENTARY: This is a typical example of how the Orwellian Double-Speak method is used to fool people… particulary by the Obama machine that is founded on false hope, or ‘CHANGE’ (that we can all believe in).
It’s not the ‘Global War on Terror’… its something completely different. Its the ‘Overseas Contingency Operation’.
That’s like saying, “We’re not watching the film ‘The Rundown’ tonight… we’re watching ‘Welcome to the Jungle’ instead”. They’re the same film just with different names (see below).
So by re-branding the Global War on Terror, to the unsuspecting masses of sheeple it draws in a false feeling of a new-era. It’s all the same under Obama, if not worse because he’s expanding the bugger!.
Keep checking back to our headlines as we continue to expose the Obama Deception (and see that we’re not just randomly mouthing off here!).