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Bush_Eats_Beef Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-02-05 09:50 PM
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Aww...Bush doesn't like "Global Struggle Against Violent Extremism"
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Former_CIA_man_says_Bush_not_happy_over_new_terror_la_0802.html

Bush critic Larry Johnson, who served as a Deputy Director in the U.S. State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism from 1989 to 1993, tells RAW STORY the intelligence community is 'abuzz' after President Bush purportedly said he was not happy about changing the Administration's terminology on terror.

Johnson has analyzed terrorist incidents for Jim Lehrer, National Public Radio, Nightline, NBC's Today Show, the New York Times, CNN, Fox News and the BBC.

Johnson emailed this to RAW STORY Tuesday afternoon; it has been excerpted.

Bush reportedly said he was not in favor of the new term, Global Struggle Against Violent Extremism (GSAVE). In fact, he said, "no one checked with me". That comment brought an uncomfortable silence to the assembled group of pooh bahs. The President insisted it was still a war as far as he is concerned.

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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-02-05 09:52 PM
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1. I hear pro-war types are starting a group called
Netizens Against Islamic Violent Extremism.
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Rufus T. Firefly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-02-05 10:02 PM
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2. Huh. He's out of the loop.
It's almost as if someone else is REALLY running the show. Imagine that.
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driver8 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-02-05 10:05 PM
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3. "I'm a war president, damn it...I don't want to be a struggle president."
"I made decisions with war on my mind...not struggles. Struggles are for pussies and democrats."
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peekaloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-02-05 10:39 PM
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7. .
:rofl:
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GeorgeBushytail Donating Member (862 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-02-05 10:05 PM
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4. "Struggle President" doesn't sound as macho as "War President"
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DrFunkenstein Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-02-05 10:35 PM
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5. Are You Pro-Struggle or Anti-Struggle?
Alot harder to screw with absolutely qualified Democratic candidates if you can't use reactionary jingoism to scare people into political paralysis.

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CAG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-02-05 10:37 PM
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6. Since when does shrub have any say over what happens??
I'm sure Cheney just told him to go back and play in his sandbox in his Crawford home backyard.
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