"JoeSpareBedroom" wrote in message
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As any good linguist or psychologist/psychiatrist will tell you, how words
are perceived is often more important than how they are meant. So, when
Bush used the term "Pakis" to describe Pakistanis, it didn't matter why he
used the term (ignorance, stupidity, a lame attempt to sound cool). The
only thing that mattered was that it's an insulting word, as far as many
Pakistanis are concerned. That trumps any possible explanation for using
the word. Case closed.

"Mission accomplished" falls into the same category, along with "This
young democracy" (describing Iraq). These tricks might work with
kindergarten kids and adults who think like children that age, but not
with adults who've been awake for 20 or 40 or 60 years.


Holy crap! He was on the deck of a freeking aircraft carrier, complimenting
it's crew for successfully completing a current, but sort term operational
mission and deployment in support of the war on terror.

The fact that many take the comment as a declaration of victory on the
entire global war on terror is their screw-up, not his.

Eisboch