Donald Rumsfeld is playing with words again…
The Pentagon’s long struggle over how to describe the war in Iraq moved to new ground Tuesday as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said he wants to retire the term “insurgents” in favor of “enemies of the legitimate Iraqi government.”
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“These people don’t have a legitimate gripe,” he said. “These people aren’t trying to promote something other than disorder. … This is a group of people who don’t merit the word insurgency.”
According to the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, an insurgent is “a person who revolts against civil authority or an established government.”
I don’t think “enemies of the legitimate Iraqi government” is going to catch on. Acronyms: EOTLIG or ELIG, nope that won’t work either.
We’ll have to wait and see if Bush and Cheney buy the new term. I think there are way too many syllables for it to flow out of Bush’s tounge-tied mouth.
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