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So here we are armed to the teeth in a hair-trigger world with a bevy of angry states happy to declare their own unilateral " wars on terror " and pursue their own armed solutions . The term " war on terror " has begun to be accepted unskeptically . Their conduct influences governments everywhere , giving comfort to those who commit torture routinely and undermining the very values the '' war on terror '' is supposed to defend . The administration 's drive to shore up popular support for its self-styled '' war on terror '' and to keep up armed forces recruitment appears to have fuelled the spending , according to Diane Farsetta of the Center for Media and Democracy , publisher of the quarterly PR Watch . On the same day that newspapers reported on events in Haditha , Vice President Dick Cheney told graduates of the US Naval Academy that the enemy in the war on terror `` is as brutal and heartless as any we have ever faced . We invaded Iraq , the terrorists engaged us there , and so indeed - - we are fighting the " war on terror " . That is effectively what we have done in Iraq , we have turned a country that had no functional connection with those who committed the attrocities in 2001 into what Bush calls the " central front in our war on terror " . We must mobilize now , or risk the U.S. using nuclear weapons in one of its " wars on terror " . Only a year ago , he urged President Bush to reject the " war on terror " as a misleading metaphor . Media there remain extremely critical of the way Washington is waging its self-styled '' war on terror '' . The increased weapons transfers were aimed at rewarding coalition partners in President George W. Bush 's self-styled '' war on terror '' and ensuring continued U.S. military access to overseas bases , the report said . In exchange , Putin sought and received an American blind eye toward his war on Chechens , and has recently pushed for permission to extend that " war on terror " into Georgia .