Colour-blind

In keeping with the redefinition of their jobs as mainly involving making speeches, the Bush White House is rolling out a new marketing campaign to definitively label all Islamic threats as "fascist." The poll-tested strategy is explained as follows --

Fascism, in fact, seems to be the new buzz word for Republicans in an election season dominated by an unpopular war in Iraq ... And Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld on Tuesday took it a step further in a speech to an American Legion convention in Salt Lake City, accusing critics of the administration's Iraq and anti-terrorism policies of trying to appease "a new type of fascism."

White House aides and outside Republican strategists said the new description is an attempt to more clearly identify the ideology that motivates many organized terrorist groups, representing a shift in emphasis from the general to the specific.

"I think it's an appropriate definition of the war that we're in," said GOP pollster Ed Goeas. "I think it's effective in that it definitively defines the enemy in a way that we can't because they're not in uniforms."

Apart from the higher level idiocy, note that complete non sequitur of fascist=not-in-uniform, since one classic characteristic of 1930s fascist movements was the wearing of commonly-coloured shirts.