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After all, they could be on the side of the good guys against a man, Muammar Gaddafi, that just about everyone agrees is a wacky dictator, and help save face for the states who have been looking to reduced their involvement in Libya almost since the moment they declared that they had an responsibility to protect R2P in diplospeak innocent Libyan civilians.

David Isenberg: PSC and R2P in Libya David Isenberg 2011

Dave - In re the diplospeak practice of non-accusation accusation - Try viewing the video again, but in place of Samantha Power picture Condi Rice with the exact same text, inflection and expression, in the role of a Bush surrogate.

Female Obama Adviser: Hillary's Rhetoric Is "Insulting" To Women 2009

I am reaching the point where I may explode on hearing one more bit of diplospeak.

Hard To Believe But True: Nobel Laureate Says N.Korea’s Human Rights Is Worrying « Sigmund, Carl and Alfred 2009

Such sleep-inducing diplospeak does not make for the most exciting of global photo ops.

Nancy Snow: The Propaganda Chronicles: North Korea Edges Out US 2009

And he knows how to cut through the diplospeak: when Clinton politely asked Russia's Boris Yeltsin for his views on a Caspian Sea gas deal proposed by Chevron Oil, Gore interjected, "" You guys will get a 10 percent cut.

Al Gore: Talk A Lot, And Carry A Big Stick 2008

But you didn't hear McCain mention that or anything else, anything other than careful diplospeak on the world stage.

CNN Transcript Mar 20, 2008 2008

And now Bill Kristol and Nick Eberstadt of the American Enterprise Institute are deploring it again and saying, George Bush has adopted the diplospeak, and -- and he has abandoned his own approach.

CNN Transcript Jul 10, 2006 2006

Grave consequences, by the way, is diplospeak rarely heard since the Cold War.

CNN Transcript Oct 19, 2006 2006

That's the diplospeak that conservatives, neoconservatives, once deplored.

CNN Transcript Jul 10, 2006 2006

MR. MCCURRY: I've got a lot of great foreign policy diplospeak about what we're going to do, but I won't satisfy your desire for details on what ideas the President presented.

Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry ITY National Archives 1998