Who you calling "insurgent"?

Finally, someone at the Pentagon used the phrase "exit strategy" publicly. But, as you might expect, it was as part of a sound bite. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said "Quitting is not an exit strategy."

Know what else isn't an exit strategy? Having no clue how to get out of Iraq. Bush's speech today, which was promised to outline the administration's strategy for victory in Iraq, was merely more of the same tired, vague rhetoric we've been hearing for months. The speech was given in front of an audience at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. Bush and Dick Cheney are so unpopular that they can only give speeches in front of miltary personnel, conservative think tanks and campaign donors. I guess even those fake "town hall meetings" we got so accustomed to during Bush's Destory Social Security tour are too risky.

In addition to defining what isn't an exit strategy (while leaving the definition of what is an exit strategy un-addressed), Professor Rumsfeld on Tuesday once again corrected the English of the press corps and the American people. This time, he tried to un-use the word "insurgents" in reference to the guerillas American troops are fighting in Iraq.

Remember how Rumsfeld et al corrected our use of the phrase "War on Terror" to the more administration-friendly, less succinct "global struggle against extremism"? Heady times. Can the reintroduction of "freedom fries" and "homicide bombers" to the collective lexicon be far off?