On 5/14/05, Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ian seems to be saying that since the Bushmeisters use a term
> ("insurgents") it is _verboten_. So if Cheney calls his home a
> "bunker," does that mean that we should eschew that term?
>
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Who gives a rip what Cheney calls his house. The Bushies are engaging
in Newspeak when they call the violence in Iraq an insurgency. That
you seem to be missing this, and the larger point that language is
politics baffles me to no end. Actually I'm at the end of my
bafflement as I'm done with this.
