*Maybe* but these terrorist scum kill unarmed people too. They explode car bombs in front of Iraqi police stations. Same terrorist scum kill Japanese aid workers. That is why I specifically mentioned, "unless they kill civilians".
Either way, whether they are legal combatants, illegal combatants or terrorists, they are still legitimate military targets.
My point was that unconventional warfare is not automatically to "terrorism" and therefore the U.S. need have no qualms in engaging in unconventional warfare.
At the same time it's better, more accurate to call them terrorists than "the Iraqi resistance" or "insurgents". It's terrible for these murderers to be called "resistance" thus linking them to the brave resistance of WW2. Also making them out to be resisting the US oppressors. And we are not occupiers of Iraq. We are liberators!!! I say you are missing the real word games going on with the international press calling these killers "resistance". It makes me ill to hear these terrorist called resistance. Also calling this a US occupation of Iraq is a vile word game by lefty media. This ignores our role in freeing Iraq. We are liberators.
Yes our military is legitimate targets for these killers. They use good guerilla tactics that will be studied for years. But in recent weeks this scum has been aiming at us less (we are too protected) and killing the unarmed Iraqis and others. Trying to terrorize them away from the US.