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Cry havoc! and let slip the pronouns of war…

Here's a pretty old post from the blog archives of Geekery Today; it was written about 17 years ago, in 2007, on the World Wide Web.

Here’s the New York Times’s report on Hordak‘s latest battle-cry:

BRUSSELS, May 11 — Vice President Dick Cheney used the deck of an American aircraft carrier just 150 miles off Iran's coast as the backdrop today to warn the country that the United States was prepared to use its naval power to keep Tehran from disrupting off oil routes or gaining nuclear weapons and dominating this region.

… Mr. Cheney's sharp warnings appeared to be part of a two-track administration campaign to push back at Iran, while leaving the door open to negotiations. It was almost exactly a year ago that the United States offered to negotiate with Iran as long as it first agreed to halt enriching uranium, a decision in which Mr. Cheney, participants said, was not a major player. Similarly, the speech today was not circulated broadly in the government before it was delivered, a senior American diplomat said. He kind of runs by his own rules, the official said.

With two carrier strike groups in the Gulf, we're sending clear messages to friends and adversaries alike, he said. We'll keep the sea lanes open. We'll stand with our friends in opposing extremism and strategic threats. We'll disrupt attacks on our own forces. We'll continue bringing relief to those who suffer, and delivering justice to the enemies of freedom. And we'll stand with others to prevent Iran from gaining nuclear weapons and dominating this region.

I want you to know that the American people will not support a policy of retreat, Mr. Cheney said. We want to complete the mission, we want to get it done right, and then we want to return home with honor.

— David E. Sanger, New York Times (2006-05-11): On Carrier in Gulf, Cheney Warns Iran

According to the story, after Dick Cheney completes his Middle East mission of sending clear messages, he will return home, sometime next week. No word yet on when American soldiers will complete their mission of opposing, disrupting, relieving, delivering military justice, occupying, keeping the sea lanes open, etc., or when he and his buddies will allow them to return home. Nor is there any word yet on when he and his buddies will stop forcing the American people, i.e. the rest of us, to foot the bill for his plans against our will.

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  2. Discussed at www.bradspangler.com

    BradSpangler.com » Blog Archive » Whaddaya mean WE?:

    […] RadGeek on why tyranny and slaughter depend upon a certain ambiguity and imprecision in language: Cry havoc! and let slip the pronouns of war… […]

  3. Discussed at thomasvanwyk.com

    The Liberator Reloaded:

    […] to Charles Johnson’s great post on the problem with pronouns like ‘we,’ witness this jackassed gem: Microsoft counters […]

— 2008 —

  1. Discussed at crookedspoke.wordpress.com

    Piss off, MS (A heavily scare-quoted rant) « Crooked Spoke:

    […] to Charles Johnson’s great post on the problem with pronouns like ‘we,’ witness this jackassed gem: Microsoft counters […]

— 2010 —

  1. Discussed at radgeek.com

    Rad Geek People’s Daily 2009-11-30 – Newspaper corrections (personal pronouns edition):

    […] GT 2007-05-13: Cry havoc! and let slip the pronouns of war… […]

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