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That’s not exactly what the Dems are saying, but when I read the article below all I could think of was the now infamous (and self-contradictory) quote from liberal icon Michael Moore (who the Dems honored with a seat right next to Jimmy Carter at their 2004 national convention):

From the article:

The House Armed Services Committee is banishing the global war on terror from the 2008 defense budget.

This is not because the war has been won, lost or even called off, but because the committee’s Democratic leadership doesn’t like the phrase.

A memo for the committee staff, circulated March 27, says the 2008 bill and its accompanying explanatory report that will set defense policy should be specific about military operations and “avoid using colloquialisms.”

The “global war on terror,” a phrase first used by President Bush shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the U.S., should not be used, according to the memo. Also banned is the phrase the “long war,” which military officials began using last year as a way of acknowledging that military operations against terrorist states and organizations would not be wrapped up in a few years.

Committee staff members are told in the memo to use specific references to specific operations instead of the Bush administration’s catch phrases. The memo, written by Staff Director Erin Conaton, provides examples of acceptable phrases, such as “the war in Iraq,” the “war in Afghanistan, “operations in the Horn of Africa” or “ongoing military operations throughout the world.”

“There was no political intent in doing this,” said a Democratic aide who asked not to be identified. “We were just trying to avoid catch phrases.”

No “political intent” my white arse.  These Dems are trying to erase the reality of the on-going war on terror from the minds of Americans simply by not referring to it any more.  It’s downright Orwellian.  It reminds me of Stalin disappearing Trotsky from official Soviet photographs and documents.  The Dems don’t want the war on terror to exist anymore because it’s inconvenient for their politics, so they’ll use bureaucratic magic to try and make it go away.

Pathetic.