Comments on: 45 Killed in Insurgent Attacks — Mostly Insurgents http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/45_killed_in_insurgent_attacks_--_mostly_insurgents/ Online Journal of Politics and Foreign Affairs Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:31:16 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Batman http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/45_killed_in_insurgent_attacks_--_mostly_insurgents/comment-page-1/#comment-39821 Batman Mon, 21 Mar 2005 16:47:10 +0000 /?p=9721#comment-39821 I have to rant a little - forgive me - Okay so of the 45 "killed by insurgent attacks" at least 24 of them were insurgents!!!!! (and we don't know about the other 21 talked about later - based on the usual ratio - if they weren't VBIEDS but Haji's with AK's then the insurgents made up the lions share of dead...) This isn't just sloppy its disgusting. I like the quote from the "US Military" (wonder how you quote over a million people - shouldn't it say - "Coalition Spokesman") who refered to the 24 as terrorists...though you know the reporter probably wanted to put terrorists in quotes...Whatever happened to headlines like - "24 insurgents killed in attacks on coalition forces" oh wait - THAT would be considered bias... when did these guys become "insurgents" anyway? Last I checked wouldn't that require some sort of cohesive political structure behind it - as opposed to the motley crew of jihadists, baathist thugs, and plain old criminal gangs that make up the "insurgency" - a word that implies a certain legitimacy, unlike "terrorist", or just plain "criminal" though terrorist's by definition have political or social goals - and by all standards of law - are also criminals. Insurgencies are similar to "revolutionaries" and imply a sort of civil war - something that is most certainly not going on in Iraq. Those killing folks in Iraq are neither "insurgents" or "revolutionaries" by any stretch of the imagination - Anyway - just my two cents... Sometimes words really DO matter... I have to rant a little - forgive me - Okay so of the 45 "killed by insurgent attacks" at least 24 of them were insurgents!!!!! (and we don't know about the other 21 talked about later - based on the usual ratio - if they weren't VBIEDS but Haji's with AK's then the insurgents made up the lions share of dead...) This isn't just sloppy its disgusting. I like the quote from the "US Military" (wonder how you quote over a million people - shouldn't it say - "Coalition Spokesman") who refered to the 24 as terrorists...though you know the reporter probably wanted to put terrorists in quotes...Whatever happened to headlines like - "24 insurgents killed in attacks on coalition forces" oh wait - THAT would be considered bias... when did these guys become "insurgents" anyway? Last I checked wouldn't that require some sort of cohesive political structure behind it - as opposed to the motley crew of jihadists, baathist thugs, and plain old criminal gangs that make up the "insurgency" - a word that implies a certain legitimacy, unlike "terrorist", or just plain "criminal" though terrorist's by definition have political or social goals - and by all standards of law - are also criminals. Insurgencies are similar to "revolutionaries" and imply a sort of civil war - something that is most certainly not going on in Iraq. Those killing folks in Iraq are neither "insurgents" or "revolutionaries" by any stretch of the imagination - Anyway - just my two cents...

Sometimes words really DO matter...

]]> By: BigFire http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/45_killed_in_insurgent_attacks_--_mostly_insurgents/comment-page-1/#comment-39817 BigFire Mon, 21 Mar 2005 15:45:50 +0000 /?p=9721#comment-39817 I don't see how they can spin more negatively than this. Next time we get a 25-0 dead terrorists count, they'll count that as 25 killed by the 'insurgents'. I don't see how they can spin more negatively than this. Next time we get a 25-0 dead terrorists count, they'll count that as 25 killed by the 'insurgents'.

]]> By: Ralf Goergens http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/45_killed_in_insurgent_attacks_--_mostly_insurgents/comment-page-1/#comment-39805 Ralf Goergens Mon, 21 Mar 2005 14:39:41 +0000 /?p=9721#comment-39805 At least they didn't replace 'terrorists's with 'militants'. Btw, some of the terrorists might have been my neighbors. A sizable number of European Muslims have gone to Iraq, after all. At least they didn't replace 'terrorists's with 'militants'.

Btw, some of the terrorists might have been my neighbors. A sizable number of European Muslims have gone to Iraq, after all.

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