Cospeak is nothing less than Doublespeak
April 14, 2008 by PraetorOne
COSPEAK IS NOTHING LESS THAN DOUBLESPEAK
The Convoluted Language of Crocker and Petreus
By PraetorOne and ReasonOne
I don’t know about you, but I am constantly amazed by our corporate, right wing media as they continue to misrepresent the relationship between Army General David Petreus and George W. Bush. It seems as if you can’t turn on our TV, read a paper, or open a website but what you’re told that General Petreus is offering an opinion as to what President Bush should do in Iraq. This of course is a blatant misrepresentation of the facts. General Petreus is hardly offering an objective opinion based on a critical observation of the facts. Instead, he is doing what he has been hired to do. He is serving as an obedient mouth piece for the administration which selected him to offer a biased opinion in the first place.
Equally obnoxious is Ambassador Crocker, a semi-literate lout who can barely express himself without tripping over and “uh”, an “and-ah,” or an “ahhhmmm.” Both Petreus and Crocker are dangerous, but if Crocker is an embarrassment who can hardly put together a simple sentence, Petreus is the more dangerous of the two because he not only understands the English language, he also knows how to use the English language to mislead and prevaricate.
In a recent article by Dick Cavett (Memo to Petreus and Crocker: More Laughs Please) Cavett points out that Petreus doesn’t use English as much as he does Cospeak, a bastardization of the English Language which substitutes complicated language with big words in an attempt to make the unacceptable sound acceptable. You just have to give Petreus credit. Not only is he a spokesperson for the Administration, a propaganda tool for the Bush Administration, he also knows how to tell the truth in language so that the average Joe won’t know what he’s talking about. According to Cavett:
Petraeus uses “challenge” for a rich variety of things. It covers ominous developments, threats, defeats on the battlefield and unfound solutions to ghastly happenings. And of course there’s that biggest of challenges, that slapstick band of silent-movie comics called, flatteringly, the Iraqi “fighting forces.” (A perilous one letter away from “fighting farces.”) The ones who are supposed to allow us to bring troops home but never do.
Petraeus’s verbal road is full of all kinds of bumps and lurches and awkward oddities. How about “ongoing processes of substantial increases in personnel”?
Try talking English, General. You mean more soldiers
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Let’s face it: This is the kind of language that we expect from lawyers and corporate leaders. Instead of using every day language, they abuse the English language by substituting technical terms for normal, every day phrases. Sometimes the purpose behind Cospeak is to exaggerate the (self) importance of the user. On other occasions the basic purpose is to render an idea incomprehensible without actually lying. On other occasions it is designed to mislead and distort. But no matter what the reason might be the motivation is always the same: to mislead, to distort the truth or at the very least render the truth impossible to understand.
Like it or not you have to admit that it has worked. The last time Petreus testified before the Congress he told us that the Surge (read “escalation) was necessary because we were losing the war in Iraq. This time he told us that the Escalation is still necessary because we’re wining the War in Iraq. Of course the fact that Petreus and Crocker are offering self-contradicting explanations has failed to work as effectively as they and the Administration would have liked because a majority of the American people are still against the Iraq War.
Luckily the American people aren’t as stupid as Petreus, Crocker, and the President think they are. Big words not withstanding, the American people have learned that the General’s unique style of speaking goes well beyond the confines of Cospeak. The fact that it is designed to deceive and rewrite history defines the General’s Cospeak as a virulent form of Orwellian Doublespeak.
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I am sick of the obvious being lied about! I was listening to the Surge and Seigure enabler’s General Batrayus and Ambassador crock-a-shi@ like you I was stupefied how once again the dire truth of failure can be spun to look and sound like success!
Thanks to another lie “the Successful Surge” the Successful siege is well under way until the war with Iran can be started!
I am sickened and sick of the mealy mouthed opened faced lying! First I have to believe that the announcement that the remains of 4 more victims of 9/11 were identified at the same damn time this farce of a hearing with its foregone conclusion of stay the course was designed to keep American fervor at a peak in Bush’s asinine stay the course favor. During the ill advised attack on Basra that is being touted a success 1,000 Iraqi soldiers deserted with our weapons and equipment, maliki went home for a break, their soldiers tried to break for lunch, and once again we had to take the lead. Success? Yes, If you know what the real goal is.
In that end As Basra is Bush and Petraeus’s lie to continue a losing war TET proved both Johnson and Westmoreland’s claims victory was at hand in Vietnam and the Viet Cong were defeated was NOT true. (Especially while they were occupying the US embassy in Saigon) Which is why Walter Cronkite made the statement he did after TET. And also why Lyndon Johnson knew TET doomed his re-election campaign. Also why the US army replaced the less then honest Westmoreland with Creighton Abrams in command of US forces in Vietnam. Just like the current fighting in Iraq has shown the surge did NOT do what Bush and McSame claimed it did, Especially after some Baghdad neighborhoods have been controlled by al Sadr’s people after this latest fighting began. Try some truth and the real facts out of Iraq instead of fox lies spin and disinformation and of course Bush’s total ignorance of anything connected with the truth ….
Uncontrolled chaos will grow as Maliki is fighting for control of the country and he is using Iraqi forces backed by the Hakim controlled Badr corps (which have NO connection to al Sadr) and Iran backed SCRI to do that. Sort of an Iraqi version of dis-enrollment of Iraqi voters who aren’t going to vote they way they want, they haven’t gotten to caging, using dishonest lists to illegally dis-enroll people who won’t vote their ways, they try to drive them away. But they are learning the slimy tactics of the repugnants quite well. There is NO “extremists” fighting in this current Shiite battle, but the Iraqi version of a primary to decide who controls the Iraqi government at the local levels.To LIE about this is just the latest repugnants disinformation campaign about the illegal war they started. try reading the “pentagon papers”, you know the pentagons OWN version of what happened in Vietnam from 1954 to 1968,( the one Nixon tried but failed to keep secret) it just might dispel some of the myths you keep spouting. But you prefer GOPer dishonest revisionary history, from the gutless chicken hawks who refused to serve there …. to the truth written by those who actually served at the time they served.
Now as Bush hails success, the truth! The latest proof of failure and escalation! The Iraqi military push into the southern city of Basra is not going as well as American officials had hoped, despite President Bush’s high praise for the operation closely held U.S. military intelligence analysis of the fighting in Basra shows that Iraqi security forces control less than a quarter of the city, according to officials in both the United States and Iraq.
You know as well as I do that Bush and Petraeus are going to do the wrong thing and this will get much worse as Iraq’s breakdown goes full swing. At that point Bush will attack Iran getting his original goal of a total middle east breakdown going full swing so he can emplace his new middle east order or so he thinks. that will leave Iraq to its demise. It will breakdown to a total civil war as originally expected before the chief idiot ignored that fact. It will be Sunni against Shiite throughout the entire middles east with Israel and us in the middle until Russia, China, and the rest of the world get involved and this dissolves into Bush’s new world order WW3 which will be Bush’s Forever War!
*Thanks to Bush at the same time by design our economy is tanking. That alone should sink Bush and McCain but due to his lies it is not. As we speak the insurgents are doing what Democrats couldn’t. They should be in the process of bringing Bush’s House of Cards Down but Bush and McCain’s lies are maddeningly keeping it afloat!
*The Chief idiot has been a failure his entire life! What I call an over confident underachiever! The powers behind the right, the Purveyors of this new societal, middle east, and world order, needed someone of Bush’s caliber, a lack of sense, integrity, and insight, to blindly cheer this so called new order agenda through! Along blundered the perfect stooge! So they elected Bush the worlds biggest loser to achieve the worlds largest conspiracy, the destruction of the American Empire and any semblance of world order! It is almost complete!
** The economy and the so called insurgents in Iraq if the truth known would be doing what the Democrats couldn’t. They should be nullifying McCain and bringing down Bush even though he is lying and fails to see the truth and the writing on the wall! I see just those two events bringing an end to the nightmare of Bush unless he pulls some underhanded tactic to keep his nightmare on track! With everything in Bush’s House of Cards failing as expected, and after the Pentagon telling him the military could do nothing more as well as the “successful” collapse of Iraq as the insurgents battle each other,blow up Iraq’s infrastructure, and fight down the Iraq Government and America, the lies which are the new truth continue to carry the day! have to wonder what act of desperation will the idiot pull next to stay in power and keep this nightmare moving forward? I did a search of my past posts on the subject of whey Iraq was attacked, the middle east, failure, middle east breakdown, world war 3, and there were so many as This breakdown was obvious 5 years ago and I have failed to get anyone of consequence to see it and to head this off! So…
I was listening to the Surge and Seigure enabler’s General Batrayus and Ambassador crock-a-shi@ and like you I was stupefied how once again the dire truth of failure can be spun to look and sound like success!
Thanks to another lie “the Successful Surge” the Successful siege is well under way until the war with Iran can be started!
I am sickened and sick of the mealy mouthed opened faced lying! First I have to believe that the announcement that the remains of 4 more victims of 9/11 were identified at the same damn time this farce of a hearing with its foregone conclusion of stay the course was designed to keep American fervor at a peak in Bush’s asinine stay the course favor. During the ill advised attack on Basra that is being touted a success 1,000 Iraqi soldiers deserted with our weapons and equipment, maliki went home for a break, their soldiers tried to break for lunch, and once again we had to take the lead. Success? Yes, If you know what the real goal is.
Uncontrolled chaos will grow as Maliki is fighting for control of the country and he is using Iraqi forces backed by the Hakim controlled Badr corps (which have NO connection to al Sadr) and Iran backed SCRI to do that. Sort of an Iraqi version of dis-enrollment of Iraqi voters who aren’t going to vote they way they want, they haven’t gotten to caging, using dishonest lists to illegally dis-enroll people who won’t vote their ways, they try to drive them away. But they are learning the slimy tactics of the repugnants quite well. There is NO “extremists” fighting in this current Shiite battle, but the Iraqi version of a primary to decide who controls the Iraqi government at the local levels.To LIE about this is just the latest repugnants disinformation campaign about the illegal war they started. try reading the “pentagon papers”, you know the pentagons OWN version of what happened in Vietnam from 1954 to 1968,( the one Nixon tried but failed to keep secret) it just might dispel some of the myths you keep spouting. But you prefer GOPer dishonest revisionary history, from the gutless chicken hawks who refused to serve there …. to the truth written by those who actually served at the time they served.
Now as Bush hails success, the truth! The latest proof of failure and escalation! The Iraqi military push into the southern city of Basra is not going as well as American officials had hoped, despite President Bush’s high praise for the operation closely held U.S. military intelligence analysis of the fighting in Basra shows that Iraqi security forces control less than a quarter of the city, according to officials in both the United States and Iraq.
You know as well as I do that Bush and Petraeus are going to do the wrong thing and this will get much worse as Iraq’s breakdown goes full swing. At that point Bush will attack Iran getting his original goal of a total middle east breakdown going full swing so he can emplace his new middle east order or so he thinks. that will leave Iraq to its demise. It will breakdown to a total civil war as originally expected before the chief idiot ignored that fact. It will be Sunni against Shiite throughout the entire middles east with Israel and us in the middle until Russia, China, and the rest of the world get involved and this dissolves into Bush’s new world order WW3 which will be Bush’s Forever War!
*Thanks to Bush at the same time by design our economy is tanking. That alone should sink Bush and McCain but due to his lies it is not. As we speak the insurgents are doing what Democrats couldn’t. They should be in the process of bringing Bush’s House of Cards Down but Bush and McCain’s lies are maddeningly keeping it afloat!
*The Chief idiot has been a failure his entire life! What I call an over confident underachiever! The powers behind the right, the Purveyors of this new societal, middle east, and world order, needed someone of Bush’s caliber, a lack of sense, integrity, and insight, to blindly cheer this so called new order agenda through! Along blundered the perfect stooge! So they elected Bush the worlds biggest loser to achieve the worlds largest conspiracy, the destruction of the American Empire and any semblance of world order! It is almost complete!
** The economy and the so called insurgents in Iraq if the truth known would be doing what the Democrats couldn’t. They should be nullifying McCain and bringing down Bush even though he is lying and fails to see the truth and the writing on the wall! I see just those two events bringing an end to the nightmare of Bush unless he pulls some underhanded tactic to keep his nightmare on track! With everything in Bush’s House of Cards failing as expected, and after the Pentagon telling him the military could do nothing more as well as the “successful” collapse of Iraq as the insurgents battle each other,blow up Iraq’s infrastructure, and fight down the Iraq Government and America, the lies which are the new truth continue to carry the day! have to wonder what act of desperation will the idiot pull next to stay in power and keep this nightmare moving forward? I did a search of my past posts on the subject of whey Iraq was attacked, the middle east, failure, middle east breakdown, world war 3, and there were so many as This breakdown was obvious 5 years ago and I have failed to get anyone of consequence to see it and to head this off! So…
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