Come on Nate. You came up with the phrase "blowback" all on your own?
That ranks right up there with "gravitas" and "hubris" just to name a
couple other meaningless terms churned out by the DNC and picked up by
every major news correspondent.

I'm not Nate and have never suggested I invented the term. To quote Chalmers
Johnson "The term 'blowback,' which the officials of the Central
Intelligence Agency first invented for their own internal use, ..... refers
to the unintended consequences of policies that were kept secret from the
American people".

These days the term has been popularized but it's basic meaning is still the
same, and it's a fair descriptor of the political direction that Iraq is
heading towards.