This is message to the american people from the freedom fighters in Iraq.

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Originally Posted by Vladimir

It just amazes me that some fluffy westerners think that the people who are trying to reinstate a brutal dictator are "freedom fighters". You could easily label them all terrorists though since they are using terror tactics to further their goals.

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So all armed resistance groups in Iraq try to reinstate Saddam Hussein and all are using terrorist tactics (i.e. they target civilians)?

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Originally Posted by Ser Clegane

So all armed resistance groups in Iraq try to reinstate Saddam Hussein and all are using terrorist tactics (i.e. they target civilians)?

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Show me the ones that aren't targeting civilians.

You mentioned them yourself - the Sunni resistance groups that are increasingly appalled by Al-Zarqawi's targeting on Iraqi civilians.

Please show me evidence that all these resistance groups also target civilians in Iraq to fight the occupation.

Or that they want Saddam back. By what I've read of it, the old Baathist hardliners have by now either died off or found a new cause - all the more so as most of the rebels aren't one bit interested in that crap.

No doubt great many of the insurrectionists would dearly like to stick it to the Coalition instead of civilians. It's just that they can't. The soldiers are way too well defended, wary and "hard" targets. So, like just about all urban guerilla groups in history, they settle for trying to manipulate public opinion through terrorizing the civilians.

Which is actually an age-old principle of warfare anyway. When the opponent was too well dug in behind fortifications to be directly attacked (or otherwise unassailable), most armies settled for ravaging his countryside and showing the populace their lords and masters couldn't actually meet their promises of protection.

Yeah, I watched it. I haven't got enough fingers to count the times they called Bush a 'criminal'. Most of it sounded like it came from MoveOn.Org.

Crazed Rabbit

It really would have been more effective had they used the narrator for all the american movie previews. "In a land far away...."

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Originally Posted by Crazed Rabbit

Yeah, I watched it. I haven't got enough fingers to count the times they called Bush a 'criminal'. Most of it sounded like it came from MoveOn.Org.

Crazed Rabbit

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Hey, that's our emperor you're talking about! :laugh4:

Which one ? I thought you had quite a few, and all of them naked...

If they are such 'good guys', why change the voice.

bleh... nice music. but a lot of lies as well.

they have turned 'the land of the free into...'

yeah right... forget it.

Maybe that was "artistic license" ? ~;p Propagandists tend to employ it a lot.

I wonder whats differance between a terrorist and a Freedom Fighter Is?:dizzy2:

Well, they tend to themselves like the word "freedom fighter". Whoever they're fighting against tends to prefer "terrorist".

Kinda like how whoever's on the receiving end of guerilla warfare tends to have a rather dim view of his tormentors.

So they fight for Freedom against the Tormenters

The Eye of the Beholder mainly. (D&D geek: "Which one?")