Politics

“Goodbye, GWOT”

We’ve got to applaud Washington Post columnists for their continuing coverage of the (now-defunct (at last)) "Global War on Terror" or GWOT phrase. From today’s In the Loop column, entitled "Goodbye, GWOT":

Seems the incoming chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Adm. Michael Mullen, has banned the use of the phrase "Global War on Terror" (GWOT) and has prohibited using it "in any future correspondence," according to a Sept. 27 e-mail from a Mullen aide.

Hmmm . . . Mullen probably doesn't remember that this issue came up two years ago because so many people then thought the term was inaccurate. It was catchy, though, one administration official said at the time.

It’s about time, since the bill introduced by Congressman Reyes and Congressman Vic Snyder nixing the "Global War on Terror" medal and creating separate medals for those who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan became law in May 2004 – yes, that’s over three years ago.

Opposed to the Administration’s efforts to try to connect the War in Iraq to the War in Afghanistan and al Qaeda, Congressman Reyes introduced this bill with Congressman Snyder in the 108^th Congress. Read about it in a June 2004 Reliable Source column entitled ‘This time, it’s the President who surrenders’ (attached) that ran in the June 3, 2004 edition of the Washington Post.

Full post as published by Silvestre Reyes Blog on October 05, 2007 (boomark / email).