[luvbach1]

"...iraqi pow's are terrorists now, too?

The people captured since the fall of Baghdad and Saddam are not from intact Iraqi units, and thus deserving of standard POW status. These units were decimated or dispersed in the first weeks of the war. Some joined the terrorist bands carrying out terrorist attacks against Iraqis an Americans alike. So many of the so-called POWs undoubtedly are terrorists.

[sweneop]

many of them are pows.

and im finding it hard to define them as terorrists here anyway... are they members of a terrorist organisation? there are times where terrorism as a definition is very clear cut, but this isnt one of them. even for more recent captures its hard to define someone who is fighting an army (even using urban guerilla tactics) as terrorists. if you start diluting that term too much it will lose all its meaning.

or is the new definition for terrorist: 'arab'?