And how do we KNOW who they are attacking...or if they even ARE attaching anyone? Maybe they are defending themselves. How do we know? How do we know who is and who ain't attacking the civilians? Seems lately there is a lot of evidence that WE are doing exactly that.
SO how do we know? By listening to Fox News? Tony Snow? Bush? reading tea leaves would give us more accurate answers... On 6/20/06, Cory Nott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would base it largely upon whom they are attacking. If they are > attacking civilians, then they are terrorists. If they are attacking US or > Iraqi troops, then they are insurgents. > > One can actually be rational about this and not resort to ad hominems. > This is a libertarian list, not a Republican or Democrat list where > everything must be couched in partisan terms and the other side is always > wrong. > > > > wgilbert02 <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <buckygilbert%40hotmail.com>> wrote: > Then we should not refer to them as anything. I can see it now, the > evening new reports that "5 -------- were killed in Faluja while two - > ---- were captured in a raid earlier." How should we identify them? > I suppose you like 'freedom fighters?' Ehh, thats a little more > politically correct. I understand that we must always be politically > correct. Never call an enemy an enemy. Hell, never call them > anything. This we must do to show how 'educated' and 'intelligent' > and 'sensitive' and 'understanding' we all are right? > > --- In [email protected] <Libertarian%40yahoogroups.com>, > "kiddleddee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected] <Libertarian%40yahoogroups.com>, > "wgilbert02" <buckygilbert@> > > wrote: > > > > > > It is different from vic's post, but my larger point was that > issues > > > such as gitmo aren't any different whatsoever. You can criticize > > this > > > government to death here, as I do very often, but the moment > anyone > > > mentions a single positive word about the U.S. or a single > negative > > > word about muslims, islamo-fascists, or terrorists, everyone is > up > > in > > > arms. > > > __________________________________________________________ > > > > The term "muslims" is inclusive of all individuals who are > adherents > > to the religion of Islam. The term "islamo-fascists" has no meaning > > whatsoever. The term "terrorist" has meaning only in context - "One > > man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter." > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > -- ***************************************** "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately!" ...Ben Franklin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Yahoo! Groups gets a make over. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/2HUd1C/lOaOAA/cUmLAA/KlSolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ForumWebSiteAt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
