Governments lie, Tom. They misrepresent and equivocate.
Not just those with Democratic presidents pulling the strings.
The specific, orginizational definition of both "amputee" and the more loosely defined "war on terror" aren't necessarily obvious and aren't necessarily the common sense definitions.
If "the war on terror" is officially defined as military action in Iraq and Afganistan since 9-11-2001, then it is probably defined as such somewhere, right?
And the definition of inane isn't "anything that annoys Tom Brosz".