Just when you think you've heard it all, The Decider finds a way to screw us once again. Bush has a problem with people saying he wants permanent military bases in Iraq. He claims he doesn't want such bases. But according to his spokesperson Dana Perino, the U.S. doesn't have any permanent bases, anywhere.

That means all those bases in Japan, Korea, Europe and other places, no, they're not permanent. When asked about Guantanamo, Perino had to admit that this base doesn't count.

Just like Bush did with torture, they changed the definition of "permanent" to mean something other than what it did before. In their view, all bases are temporary, used at the invitation of the host country. Since the host could tell us to leave, that means they aren't permanent.

Cuba has been asking us to leave Gitmo for decades. Fidel Castro even refuses to cash the rent checks the U.S. sends as payment for using the base. Guess Gitmo is what should be more properly called occupied territory.

Seems George Orwell was right about the world. He just got the date wrong.