It’s bad enough that you have radical leftists out there who deny the Holocaust. Now we have left wing Congressmen denying today’s Global War on Terror.

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.”

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It just astonishes me the way liberals will construct their own little fantasy world to live in. I guess if we don’t say there is a War on Terror we will all just forget about the threat of Islamic Fascism and it will go away by itself. I can’t imagine what else their motivation would be. I liked Neal Boortz’s response to this, though:

You listeners will note that I, too, have a problem with the “war on terror” phrase. Terror is a tactic. You don’t declare war on a tactic. You declare war on the people who threaten you. That would be Muslim radicals. The proper phrase should be the “War on Islamic Fascism,” but you just know that no good peace-at-any-price Democrat would ever go along with that. Besides, it’s offensive to Muslim terrorists.