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myomy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-04 03:50 PM
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If the US were invaded, would we be known as insurgents if
we were fighting for our land? If the answer is "no", then why are the Iraqis always referred to as insurgents?
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everythingsxen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-04 03:52 PM
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1. I have no idea...
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fryguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-04 03:53 PM
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2. we already are
as far as the Bush League is concerned
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kiahzero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-04 03:54 PM
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3. Linguistically, yes (n/t).
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greatauntoftriplets Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-04 04:01 PM
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4. Just heard them use the same word on NPR.
Remember, the white men who came to these shores felt the same way about Native Americans. Was it Custer who said "The only good Indian is a dead Indian"? Whoever it was, what a sensitive guy!
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arcane1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-04 04:07 PM
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5. they would call us "Bush loyalists"
but I would fight them anyway
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mitchtv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-04 04:08 PM
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6. likewise do you ever hear the word 'collaborators'?
in reference to Iraquis'helping the occupying powers.'
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myomy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-04 04:23 PM
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7. Another good one.
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Zero Gravitas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-04 04:38 PM
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8. of course we would
insurgent

adj : in opposition to a civil authority or government n 1: a person who takes part in a rebellion in the hope of improving conditions 2: a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment

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tabasco Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-04 04:43 PM
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9. This seems right to me.
Been awhile since I cracked open an Army field manual, but this seems like the correct definition. I believe the word is accurately used to describe the Iraqi opposition.
WOLVERINES!
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Media_Lies_Daily Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-04 04:46 PM
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10. The British referred to the rebelling Americans as "rebels"...
...while the Americans referred to themselves as "patriots".

Today, if occupied by a foreign power, we would refer to ourselves as "patriots" and "freedom fighters", while the foreign power would refer to us as "terrorists", "dead-enders", "rebels", and "insurgents".
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myomy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-04 04:54 PM
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11. Remember during the 80's "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom
fighter".
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dpibel Donating Member (898 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-04 05:02 PM
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12. Well, of course not
Because everyone would know that we were fighting for the restoration of the only truly great country the world has ever known. Even the invaders would know that, but they would try to cover up their guilty consciences with filthy lies about how we were simply malcontents and they were liberators. Everyone in the world would know they were lying, although they might keep quiet out of fear of any country with sufficient military might to invade the United States (of course we already stand in danger of imminent invasion by the mighty imperialistic Army of Islam which desires only to invade our country for sport, and will, absent space-based missile defense, do so aboard their mighty armada of dhows, skiffs, fishing boats and luxury yachts).

I cannot imagine how you could fail to see the distinction between America being invaded, which would be a war to take away freedom, as opposed to America invading elsewhere, which is always a war to impose freedom.

Please do not post any more of this immoral material here. The moral equivalency you are trying to palm off here as reasoned discourse would perhaps be better carried on under the auspices of your good friend and role model, Fidel Castro, don't you think? One way tickets available!

Thank you.




(Please don't make me put the /sarcasm thingy on this. If I were seriously putting these ideas forward, you know I wouldn't be able to spell this well.)
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myomy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-04 05:15 PM
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14. You do a nice imitation of a freeper however.
Had me fooled for a few paragraphs.
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democratreformed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-04 05:03 PM
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13. Ah, I have wondered about that very point myself so many times.... n/t
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