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2007-12-28 Britain
Britain Drops 'War on Terror' Label
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Posted by ryuge 2007-12-28 07:38|| || Front Page|| [5 views ]  Top
 File under: Global Jihad 

#1 "War on Terror" is not really a good label. It tries to beat around the bushes of the real issue. So, what the Brits do? Ban "Islamic Terrorism".

"We can't upset our Islamic overlords. God save Khalif Charles!"
Posted by Spike Uniter 2007-12-28 08:10||   2007-12-28 08:10|| Front Page Top

#2 This just in ... England is abandoning the Bulldog as it's national mascot in favor of the French poodle.
Posted by doc 2007-12-28 08:22||   2007-12-28 08:22|| Front Page Top

#3 ... since the French have begun using the more formidable Weimeraner.
Posted by Fred 2007-12-28 08:32||   2007-12-28 08:32|| Front Page Top

#4 We resist the language of warfare...

And apparently all other forms of warfare as well. Welcome your new Islamic overlords.
Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader  2007-12-28 09:40||   2007-12-28 09:40|| Front Page Top

#5 "The people who were murdered on July 7 were not the victims of war. The men who killed them were not soldiers," Macdonald said. "They were fantasists, narcissists, murderers and criminals and need to be responded to in that way."

No blood for narcissists!
Posted by Seafarious 2007-12-28 09:47||   2007-12-28 09:47|| Front Page Top

#6 The term "Islamic terrorist" will also no longer be used. Officials believe it is unhelpful because it appears to directly link the religion to terrorist atrocities.

Because as we know there is no direct link between a religion advocating war against non-believers and proponents of said religion carrying out war against non-believers.
Posted by Excalibur 2007-12-28 09:52||   2007-12-28 09:52|| Front Page Top

#7 I prefer 'War on Koran' because this is where their ideology/terrorism comes from!!!!
Posted by Paul 2007-12-28 09:52||   2007-12-28 09:52|| Front Page Top

#8 The new name: "Britain's Great Pillow Fight on...Something".
Sponsored by Vaseline.
Posted by tu3031 2007-12-28 10:02||   2007-12-28 10:02|| Front Page Top

#9 Now officially known as the "Civilised effort to herd fluffy bunnies and baby ducks to safety..."
Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek  2007-12-28 11:14||   2007-12-28 11:14|| Front Page Top

#10 tu's close, but I propose: "Bite the pillow"
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2007-12-28 11:27||   2007-12-28 11:27|| Front Page Top

#11 Please don't confuse ordinary Brits with the spineless wankers that currently inhabit Whitehall.

I don't do it with Americans ;)
Posted by Tony (UK) 2007-12-28 12:09||   2007-12-28 12:09|| Front Page Top

#12 Never that, Tony.

The distinction is quite clear.

;-)
Posted by Seafarious 2007-12-28 12:11||   2007-12-28 12:11|| Front Page Top

#13 :-)
Posted by Tony (UK) 2007-12-28 13:14||   2007-12-28 13:14|| Front Page Top

#14 "Extermination of the Death Cult" works for me, though "Extermination of the Islamist Death Cult" would be more accurate.
Posted by KBK 2007-12-28 13:36||   2007-12-28 13:36|| Front Page Top

#15 OK, so "terror" is to be replaced by "death cult," and "war" is to eliminated, but what will replace "war"? They need a word to describe how the government of Britain is responding to the death cultists. Since we must eschew war-like terms, I suppose it will either be the "disagreement with the death cult," the "ignoring of the death cult," or the "appeasement of the death cult." Since we are not told which, perhaps they are still making up their minds?
Posted by Skunky Angeack7024 2007-12-28 13:39||   2007-12-28 13:39|| Front Page Top

#16 How about a tried and true term from the past like "Crusade"?
Posted by Steve 2007-12-28 13:59||   2007-12-28 13:59|| Front Page Top

#17 "Crusade" works for me Steve.

The men who killed them were not soldiers," Macdonald said. "They were fantasists, narcissists, murderers and criminals and need to be responded to in that way."

Just what Clinton did. Treat Islam as a legal matter instead of a war. Didn't work for him ether.

Spit.
Posted by Icerigger">Icerigger  2007-12-28 14:38|| http://coonlakebeach.com/support_mn_troops.htm]">[http://coonlakebeach.com/support_mn_troops.htm]  2007-12-28 14:38|| Front Page Top

#18 Koran motivated mass murder?

We had a story on vitamin D deficiency. The MSM just couldn't say "caused by wearing burkas". Very Orwellian when the state "news" clouds the news, rather than reveals the truth.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2007-12-28 16:49||   2007-12-28 16:49|| Front Page Top

#19 PAYVAND > UK HELD SECRET TALKS WITH IRAN 20 YEARS AGO, vv France, Germany, etc. for construx of approxi 20 domestic nuke power plants.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-12-28 19:59||   2007-12-28 19:59|| Front Page Top

#20 Doesn't Bush and the US own the trademark on WoT™?
Where to the Brits get off changing it?
Posted by 3dc 2007-12-28 21:50||   2007-12-28 21:50|| Front Page Top

#21 #16: How about a tried and true term from the past like "Crusade"?

I prefer the universal phrase "Exterminate" like lice and all other vermin.
Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-12-28 21:51||   2007-12-28 21:51|| Front Page Top

#22 Jihadi-trained Daleks would be nice. ;-)
Posted by twobyfour 2007-12-28 22:34||   2007-12-28 22:34|| Front Page Top

#23  London is not a battlefield... ...yet.

Posted by GK 2007-12-28 22:49||   2007-12-28 22:49|| Front Page Top

#24 What about 7/11?
Posted by 3dc 2007-12-28 23:24||   2007-12-28 23:24|| Front Page Top

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