Posted on 03/09/2011 5:31:25 PM PST by Nachum
The State Department on Wednesday declined to describe the raging conflict in Libya as a civil war, after a key lawmaker used the term to characterize the ongoing battle between rebels and forces loyal to Muammar al-Qaddafi.
"I would just say that what we have is a leader who used not just arms but heavy weaponry against his people and is now in a situation where he's lost all legitimacy," State Department spokesman Mark Toner said, when asked whether the fighting had escalated into a civil war.
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State Department Declines to Call `The War Between the States 1861-1865`, ‘The Civil War’
This is shameful.
Name changing is the essence of the Harvard boys (highly education elite) labor and socialist takeovers. They pretend to fix problems by renaming them. Worse they rename ideological componenets and people, as a tool to recast the meaning or them over time. This is often called propaganda; I’m not sure most people are aware how effective this is over time, if there isn’t attempt at defense those truth.
“.... in a situation where he has lost all legitimacy.”
ROFLMAO ! ! !
No Moslim leader and no Moslim ‘nation’ is legitimate by Western standards.
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