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A new Devil's Dictionary for the Bush administration

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From: CCPA Monitor
Date: 20050901
Author:Engelhardt, Tom

The Nation Institute, a project of The Nation magazine, recently started compiling definitions for a modern Devil's Dictionary patterned on the caustic model produced by Ambrose Bierce back in 1911. The project was activated by the Bush administration's prodigious exercise in twisting or re-defining the English language to justify its activities, especially those related to its "global war on terror. " Redefining enemies captured in this war as "unlawful combatants" rather than "prisoners of war" is one example of this Bush doublespeak. So is branding countries the U.S. doesn't like "rogue ...

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