When did ´terrorists´ become ´insurgents´? | |
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(OP) OG GLP...May be habit forming! 12/08/2005 10:17 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | They were Iraqies until the american nazi party told the whore media to tell america they were not. So all the monkeys on monkey island took thier banana and ate it. "There's no justice...just us." - Pratchett "The arid torpor of inaction will be our demise." - Prof. Graffin "Don't be afraid to pogo!" - Axxel G. Reese #atwarwithyou |
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(OP) OG GLP...May be habit forming! 12/08/2005 10:17 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | HI all! They are insurgents because calling them terrorists is SO incorrect that it would soon threaten Americans. It started to be recieved as "We call freedom fighters terrorist, you are next...." So they changed the wording. Are we next? Are we? Be safe. Daemon "There's no justice...just us." - Pratchett "The arid torpor of inaction will be our demise." - Prof. Graffin "Don't be afraid to pogo!" - Axxel G. Reese #atwarwithyou |
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(OP) OG GLP...May be habit forming! 12/08/2005 10:17 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If the superpower of the world invaded your nation, killed your women, children, elderly, cut off your water,food, electricity and medicine and bombed your town with depleted uranium, what would you do? What would you want to be called when your struck back? Or would you just cower down with your tail between your legs? With the massive amount of distain that the world now holds for the U.S.A. becasue of this illegal war, the probability that we will be attacked and invaded has increased tremendously. You know, what goes around, comes around. Love, Daleth "There's no justice...just us." - Pratchett "The arid torpor of inaction will be our demise." - Prof. Graffin "Don't be afraid to pogo!" - Axxel G. Reese #atwarwithyou |
Citizen17
(OP) OG GLP...May be habit forming! 12/08/2005 10:17 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I just think the semantic spin is ridiculous...you hear that word bandied about these days like people actually know what it means. Most people, I´d imagine, don´t give the rhetoric a second thought, and of course the Iraqi ´insurgents´ don´t really give a toss what they´re called by the propagandists... "There's no justice...just us." - Pratchett "The arid torpor of inaction will be our demise." - Prof. Graffin "Don't be afraid to pogo!" - Axxel G. Reese #atwarwithyou |
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Anonymous Coward 12/08/2005 10:17 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Native Americans one of many "insurgents" The civilans do not like the New government that britian and the usa put in power. They actually have the nerve to want to form their own government. |
Anonymous Coward 12/08/2005 10:17 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | parˇtiˇsan1 ( P ) Pronunciation Key (pärt-zn) n. A fervent, sometimes militant supporter or proponent of a party, cause, faction, person, or idea. A member of an organized body of fighters who attack or harass an enemy, especially within occupied territory; a guerrilla. |
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(OP) OG GLP...May be habit forming! 12/08/2005 10:17 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | THE iraqi freedom fighters are not insurgents, they are freedom fighters,, the name was changed because the words freedom fighter gives off the aura of sympathy, we should be sympathetic to them as well as the palestinians who are all freedom fighters , fighting for freedom, the iraqi people have less freedom now then they ever had in the history of iraq, there is no freedom in IRAQ with the american apes holding guns to women and children, they never show footage of a child lying dead or a woman who happend to be traveling in a car going to fast , but belive me there are photos like that out there, one woman was shot dead for approaching the soilders yesterday with a basket of bread.. this is the reality war, the soilders have been there too long and are starting to lose their minds, they are seeing every iraqi as a threat, even the three year old they killed last week who was running away from a house where his family was just blown up by a missle, they shot the kid dead on the spot for running away, y´all chould check the military boards "There's no justice...just us." - Pratchett "The arid torpor of inaction will be our demise." - Prof. Graffin "Don't be afraid to pogo!" - Axxel G. Reese #atwarwithyou |
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(OP) OG GLP...May be habit forming! 12/08/2005 10:17 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 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: [link to www.smh.com.au] "There's no justice...just us." - Pratchett "The arid torpor of inaction will be our demise." - Prof. Graffin "Don't be afraid to pogo!" - Axxel G. Reese #atwarwithyou |
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User ID: 9834739 United States 07/18/2012 11:51 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | TY Posters for finding that story. Thats Corperate Media for you. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 0 jewish people who fought against Nazis in the Warsaw ghetto. Nazi NWO controlled Media Hores. I'm in GLP threads in 2012, looking for older GLP threads. We found this one, so I am posting. (time traveling really, heh!) Anybody find a thread older than this one? "We are the music makers. And we are the dreamers of dreams." Willy Wonka |
Just A Dream? User ID: 34753699 United States 02/19/2013 11:50 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If the superpower of the world invaded your nation, killed your women, children, elderly, cut off your water,food, electricity and medicine and bombed your town with depleted uranium, what would you do? What would you want to be called when your struck back? Or would you just cower down with your tail between your legs? With the massive amount of distain that the world now holds for the U.S.A. becasue of this illegal war, the probability that we will be attacked and invaded has increased tremendously. You know, what goes around, comes around. Love, Daleth Quoting: Emerald Empress |
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(OP) OG GLP...May be habit forming! User ID: 59029516 United States 08/22/2016 04:54 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "I'm in GLP threads in 2012, looking for older GLP threads. We found this one, so I am posting. (time traveling really, heh!) Anybody find a thread older than this one?" Heh-larious!!! Oldest post? That can't be right. Anyway, I appreciate finding this thread and reading the 2003 'directive' above re: the deliberate change in use of the word, even if it's almost 11 years coming. Thank goodness for media and market research!! I LOVE the ways they try and tell us all what to think! Last Edited by Citizen17 on 08/22/2016 04:57 AM "There's no justice...just us." - Pratchett "The arid torpor of inaction will be our demise." - Prof. Graffin "Don't be afraid to pogo!" - Axxel G. Reese #atwarwithyou |
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