His Not Yet Legacy: Language

If the Bush administration has excelled at one thing over the last 7 1/2 years, it's their heavy-handed use of the English language and their brazen ability to twist and distort that language to fit pretty much every definition they see fit. Now you're probably saying, "Hey, all politicians do that" and you're right, but this isn't debating what the definition of "is" is or whether getting a blow job is having sexual relations with a woman; we're talking government sanctioned eavesdropping and spying on American citizens, starting a war that's responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people with lies and torturing people, at times quite literally, to death. These are "funneling money from arms sales to bloody South American death squads" and "faking the Gulf of Tonkin incident to start the Vietnam War" caliber war crimes.

But if you're afraid Congress is going to try to indict you for such things, just relabel them "mortality enhancement operations" and your ass is covered. Jon Stewart demonstrates how the Bushies have mastered these crucial linguistic techniques: