Brits retire phrase "War on Terror"

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http://news.aol.com/topnews/articles/_a/britain-stops-using-war-on-terror-phrase/20070416185709990001

Hopefully, under a Dem president, and a Dem-controlled Congress, this country will follow suit.

LONDON (April 17) - A member of Tony Blair 's Cabinet on Monday brought out into the open a quiet shift away from the U.S. view on combatting extremist groups, acknowledging that British officials have stopped using the expression "war on terror " favored by President Bush .

International Development Secretary Hilary Benn, a rising star of the governing Labour Party, said the phrase strengthens terrorists by making them feel part of a bigger struggle.

"In the U.K., we do not use the phrase 'war on terror' because we can't win by military means alone, and because this isn't us against one organized enemy with a clear identity and a coherent set of objectives," Benn told a meeting in New York organized by the Center on International Cooperation think tank.

He said the real struggle pits the "vast majority" of the world's people "against a small number of loose, shifting and disparate groups who have relatively little in common apart from their identification with others who share their distorted view of the world and their idea of being part of something bigger."

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1. So the Bush/Blair duet of "You and Me Against the World" is now just a solo act

Bush singing it to himself in the bathroom mirror.