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To: Elroy who wrote (244184)	7/30/2005 8:53:52 AM
From: Road Walker	Respond to of 1578370

re: See!? I told ya the war ended long ago! The administration has finally caught up.. I never argued that you were wrong, only that arguing about semantics and "common usage" was a dead end. (And besides, we were discussing the "war" in Iraq, not the "war on terrorism"). But the amazing part to me is visualizing Rove ("Boy Genius" and "Turd Blossom"; Bush's nicknames for Rove) sitting around with the WH marketing group discussing their slogans. "OK, the "war on terrorism" slogan isn't playing well with the focus groups. Voters are getting sick of the war thing, and we're not running again so we don't need to work the fear angle with the "terrorism in Peoria" thing. How 'bout we run "struggle against violent extremism" up the flag pole? Get Rummy to do it, he can even make Iraq sound simple. "Struggle" is a nice minimizing word, the middle class can identify 'cause they do it everyday. "Violent extremism" works for the next target Iran, since we can't prove they are "terrorists". So put out the memo, if any Republican says "war on terrorism" they have to stay after class and write "struggle against violent extremism" 200 times on the blackboard and no more reelection funds." These guys are a piece of work. John