The U.S. military closed down its press desk in Iraq on Wednesday and sent out an email to Beltway journalists announcing so. Washington Post blog:
“Due to our reposture efforts the press desk function will no longer provide releases or responses,” said the brief e-mail that landed in journalists’ in-boxes on Wednesday morning.
Col. Barry Johnson, a senior spokesman who will remain in Iraq until the troops have departed by the end of the year, explained that “reposture efforts” is the phrase the military has determined most appropriate to describe what news outlets are calling a “withdrawal.”
“The reposture is how we refer to moving our troops to other locations outside the country,” he said. “The decision was made last year to talk about this as reposturing.”
Of course, he’s right. It isn’t a withdrawal, it’s a shifting.
So "reposture" would be bullsh*t in Penta-speak jargon.
Of course the military has its own parlance. It never admits to words like: retreat, withdrawal (same thing) or surrender.
'Retreat' = advance to the rear
On top of this garbage statement, along comes blowhard Biden to give a speech that sounds even more stupid.
I wonder how much we’ll hear about this in the upcoming election debates. The Republicans candidates have been openly
It’s hard not to suspect that the Justice Department’s snooping on journalists from the Associated Press is far more common than anyone has so far suggested. In this latest case, they just had the misfortunate of getting caught.
Ita??s hard not to suspect that the Justice Departmenta??s snooping on journalists from the Associated Press is far more common than anyone has so far suggested. In this latest case, they just had the misfortunate of getting caught.