Surging -- Grrrr

When I heard the newest deployment of troops to Iraq being called a "surge," I had misgivings. Not only was it a misuse of the word, it implied not only the nautical influx of water but also the ebb and flow of the tides. Here is the full free dictionary page on what surge really means. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/surge Please note that no where in there, not even in the thesaurus section, do we ever refer to military deployments as surging. It is a made up mockery of a word which fits considering the Iraq adventure was/is a made up mockery of a war against terrorism. And here is the latest from Reuters about the Iraqui puppet democratic government government's ebbing into oblivion. http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSKIM74750720070517?feedType=RSS I am ticked off about this whole war and its blatant misuse of language. We no longer call these kids soldiers. We call them troops. We no longer call a spade a spade today. Deaths morph into casualties. Suicide bombers are not counted among the dead. Losses are minimized. Back in the day when I first heard discussion about going into Iraq, I also heard rather good arguments for getting an interim government ready prior to going in. There were some candidates with ties to the Royal family that Saddam's regime (with U.S. help) ousted years ago when he took power. Don't believe me? Here is a link to a page on Richard Helms, former CIA chief. http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/51/217.html I thought that those royals (even with the criticism that no one wanted them) would have been better than to make this stuff up as we went along. Here is a link to an article on that issue. http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA10602 But the genie is out of the bottle now.