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When did ´terrorists´ become ´insurgents´?
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[quote:Postures:MV8zOTIzMF8zMzIzNzU5XzRGRENBRTUx] A little over one year ago. . . . -- War declared on resistance November 7, 2003 Los Angeles: The Los Angeles Times has ordered its journalists to stop describing anti-American forces in Iraq as resistance fighters, saying the term romanticises them and evokes World War II-era heroism. An email circulated this week asked staff to instead use the terms insurgents or guerillas. An assistant managing editor, Melissa McCoy, said on Wednesday that the memo followed a discussion among top editors at the paper and was not sparked by reader complaints. McCoy said she considered the term resistance fighters an accurate description of Iraqis battling US troops, but said it also evoked World War II - specifically the French Resistance or Jews who fought against Nazis in the Warsaw ghetto. She was confident that Times reporters who used the term had no intention to romanticise the Iraqis who have killed more than 100 US soldiers since Washington declared the war all but over in May. The paper´s Baghdad bureau had no objection to the change. David Hoffman, foreign editor of The Washington Post, said his paper had used the phrase resistance fighters to describe Iraqi forces and had no objection to it. "They are resisting an American occupation so it´s not inaccurate." Reuters This story was found at: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/11/06/1068013331454.html [/quote]
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If one can admit that the govt. in Iraq is not a freely elected, appointed or approved legitimate govt. body, than these folks who are revolting against said body are really not insurgents...
Why are they called that now?
Just because a decision is made to strip a people of its leader (no matter how bad the leader was) and install a new form of govt. does not make the people railing against the new body ´insurgents´.
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