Fighting Words: Decoding Iraq War Lingo
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"Hi Sergeant, we hear there are clashes  in Baquba. Do you have any information on that?" screams the  journalist down a bad mobile phone line from Baghdad.
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When an Arabic-language Web site carried a photo this week of a toy soldier with a gun to its head, many people were briefly tricked into believing a U.S. infantryman was in Iraqi rebel hands.
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Some US media outlets decide to refer to the fighting in Iraq as a civil war in defiance of the White House.
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Will someone explain to me what in the world is going on in Iraq? Our troops are now digging around in trash heaps looking for chunks of metal they can use to improvise armor to protect their vehicles against small-arms attacks.
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Iraq war blogs are as varied as the soldiers who write them. Some sites feature practical news, war pictures and advice. Some are overtly political, with more slanting to the right than to the left. Some question the war, some cheer it.
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The U.S. presidential campaign, the  Iraq war and television broadcasts all provided words and  phrases featured on a year-end list of misused, overused and  generally useless terms compiled by a Michigan university.
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In typical give-a-dog-a-bad-name-to-hang-it fashion, the BBC badgered UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to use the word &quot;illegal&quot; to describe the invasion of Iraq by US and British forces last year.
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America's major wars and the length of U.S. participation:
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By MATT COLEMAN  It's easy to take instant communication for granted with the accessibility of cell phones and the Internet. This becomes a little more difficult when the person you're communicating with is in a war zone.
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When it comes to the Iraq war, apparently there is more than one right answer.
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Using speech-to-text software and studying the contextual relationships between words, a new startup makes audio files as searchable as text on the web. By Eliot Van Buskirk.
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"War" is a well-known and well-worn term in the tech industry. Witness the browser wars in which Microsoft and Mozilla vie for control over how you view the Web. The gaming wars refer to the three-way fight between Microsoft (a frequent combatant), Nintendo, and Sony, each of which sells a next-gen gaming console that flew off the shelves in the shopping frenzy of the 2006 holiday season.
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An eyewitness account of the vicious battle to retake the  Iraqi city
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NEW YORK - &quot;Blog&quot; is now the most popular search word in the online version of the Merriam-Webster dictionary. Its frequent lookup paralleled its growth on the political scene this year as keepers of Web logs
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As in war, there&#39;s plenty of fog and smoke on the political battlefield that makes it hard to see what&#39;s going on. But there is one place in particular that you can go and cut through the competing messages and find a least a kernel of truth.
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Understanding the new and lethal logic of violence in the Middle East - and what the world can do to find peace
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The Obama Express. My latest piece on Huffington.  If you like it, please feel free to pass it on.  "cheesecake"