The new jargon includes:

-- Operation Iraqi Freedom: the name given to the US-led military invasion of Iraq.

-- Coalition of the Willing: the 50 or so countries that support the United States in waging the war, some morally like the tiny island of Palau, others with logistics and a few, including Britain, on the battle ground. Some of the countries in the coalition asked not to be named.

-- Victory parade: what general Tommy Franks, who commanded coalition military operations in Iraq, says he won't have. The United States, which has faced stiff criticism from some countries for waging the war, is keen to be seen as a liberating rather than occupying force and has even tried to keep US flags out of sight in Iraq.

-- Regime: often used by US political, military officials and sometimes journalists to describe the now-deposed Iraqi government, and sometimes just President Saddam Hussein. Often used in conjunction with the words "brutal" or "vicious."

-- Free Iraqis: a US term for those in Iraq who do not support the regime.

-- Remnants of the regime: the opposite of free Iraqis, in US terms

-- Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin: The men US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says the Iraqi strongman has joined, as in: "Saddam Hussein is now taking his place alongside Hitler, Stalin ... in the pantheon of failed dictators."

-- 200,000: The price tag in dollars the United States put on Saddam's head.

-- WMDs: short for weapons of mass destruction, which the United States claims Saddam has been stockpiling, but which US-led troops have failed to find.

-- Site exploitation: the assessment of sites suspected of holding WMDs. To date, several such sites turned out to hold fertilizers, pesticides and other products meant for agricultural use.

-- Permissive environments: US terms for areas of Iraq now considered safe

-- Oil-for-palace: the term Franks used, while touring one of Saddam's lavish palaces, to describe what the regime did with revenue from crude sales allowed under the UN oil-for-food exception to international sanctions against Iraq.

-- Embeds: journalists "embedded" with the US armed forces. Embeds are attached to a unit and often have reported and broadcast live as battles were underway.

-- Shock and awe: the term given to the initial stage of the campaign, whose massive firepower aimed at demonstrating the overwhelming US military superiority.

-- Stabilization: the process the US military say is now underway, in which troops move away from combat to help rebuild the basic infrastructure, bring order and pave the way for transition to a new Iraqi government.

-- ORHA: The Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistanceheaded by US General Jay Garner, the retired US general named to head an interim administration in Iraq.

-- Pooh: The nickname given to Franks by two granddaughters, after the children's book bear Winnie the Pooh.

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