Criticism of The War On Terror - Pejorative Terms

Pejorative Terms

Critics have replaced "war on terror" or related phrases with pejorative terms:

• "So-called War on Terror", due to the perceived disingenuous nature of the phrase many non-U.S. media publications have taken to referring to it as the "so-called War on Terror".
• "TWAT" (The War Against Terrorism - an offensive word in some dialects of English used satirically by some web sites
• "War against tourism" as parodied by Justin Butcher, partly in reference to the accent of President Bush.
• "War of Terror", a term used by Sacha Baron Cohen as Borat in the rodeo scene of Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.
• "Operation Iraqi Liberation" or "O.I.L," is often used to criticise both the euphemistic terminology used by the government for the Iraqi invasion (officially named Operation Iraqi Freedom) and the impoundment of Iraq's oil resources which is considered by some to be the real purpose of the invasion. White House press secretary Ari Fleischer actually used this term in press briefings on March 24, 2003 and April 1, 2003.
• The War on Errorism is an album by NOFX, whose cover art also depicts President Bush as a clown.
• "War Against Some Terrorists" was suggested by the late Robert Anton Wilson, with the comment: "Just as the War Against Drugs would make some kind of sense if they honestly called it a War Against Some Drugs, I regard Dubya's current Kampf as a War Against Some Terrorists. I may remain wed to that horrid heresy until he bombs CIA headquarters in Langtry."
• The Chaser's War on Everything is a satirical television series broadcast on ABC TV in Australia.
• Stephen Colbert referred to it as "The Never Ending War on Everything"