October 20, 2006
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Billmon
I love me some billmon. Someone should be paying him money to 'blog. Just 'blog all day long and end up rich. That's what should be happening to billmon.
Anyway, I'd just like to take a moment and point out some military newspeak billmon quotes in his ongoing 'Hirohito Watch' series:
"In Baghdad, Operation Together Forward . . . has not met our overall expectations in sustaining a reduction in the level of violence." --Major Gen. William Caldwell, Press conference, October 19, 2006
'Sustaining a reduction?' You mean 'reducing?'
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I'm somehow reminded of Steve Martin's character in LA Story, when he mentions "the interesting word usements he structures"..
In the military, though, 'sustaining a reduction in the level of violence' is legitimate useage. It allows the speaker to not have failed to reduce violence, but to have failed to sustain a reduction in violence. So even though it's complete double-talk, it's allowed.
interesting...
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