BTW, doing one thing doesn't mean they're not doing other stuff. Seems to be fallacy day here.

Pure politics is the way I see this clownish act. ‘Never let the other guy frame the discussion’, even at the cost of reality.

The GWOT is not reality. It is a catch phrase with no real meaning seeing as we are very friendly with a nuimber of terrorists and terrorist regimes. What we should have is an operation (not a war) to get al qaeda. This doesn't need, and shouldn't have, a media name since it should be done by the spooks and undercover law enforcement.

While “Global War on Terror” is a rather silly and imprecise name, it’s not within Congress’ prerogative to dictate what words executive branch officials employ.

Were they trying to? The quote says:

The House Armed Services Committee is banishing the global war on terror from the 2008 defense budget.

The budget is Congress' domain. The president draws up what he'd like but it is congress that has total control over what he gets.

The GWOT medals aren’t Congress’ call, either. They were established by Executive Order on March 12, 2003.

You are falling for a distraction. Notice that the dems said nothing about the medals at all. That was entirely a republican smoke screen.

Pure politics is the way I see this clownish act. 'Never let the other guy frame the discussion', even at the cost of reality.

Perhaps they will embrace their new found passion for eschewing cliche and espousing precision in their speech by referring to their goal in Iraq as retreat or 'run away'.

Well, in name at least:The House Armed Services Committee is banishing the global war on terror from the 2008 defense budget. This is not because the war has been won, lost or even called off, but because the committee’s Democratic...

What do you suppose the Democrats want to do, here, hmmm?