[pissant]

comparing the "insurgents" to cockroaches is an insult; to the roaches. A better description is "godless, fetid piles of s**t."

[chemical_boy]

Good title...He HE

[BackInBlack]

"In truth, these anti-American Americans embody the terrorists’ false hope for victory. They unwittingly add fuel to the fire."

I'm not sure how unwitting it is.

[BackInBlack]

By the way -- and I swear I'm not asking this with a liberal smirk -- does anyone have a working definition of terrorism vs. insurgent?

[dmz]

Can I please make one point, unrelated to the main thrust of the thread.

Major combat operations are not finished in Iraq, regardless of what Mr. Bush said those many months ago. When you have 10-15 thousand troops clearing a city (Fallujah), that is a major combat operation.

Now as far as the use of the term insurgent is concerned, it is an accurate use of the word, whether we like it or not. One need only consult a dictionary to conclude this. They are, at the same time, terrorists involved in the insurgency. One can be a terrorist and an insurgent at the same time.

[stubai]

Agreed!!

This points to a central failure in our current war effort - the home front. Somewhere along the road in this war we lost the battle of semantics. Instead of fighting unholy terrorists only worthy of a swift, gruesome and timely demise we are fighting insurgents or worse yet revolutionaries. We have legitimized our enemies!!!

Indeed the MSM has done their very best to make the lowly, putrid, jihadist, terrorist maggots, more noble than the very U.S. Soldiers and Marines fighting this scum on a daily basis. The MSM accounts of the GWOT in Iraq depict the "insurgents" mission as pure, noble, and easily understood while the U.S. mission in Iraq is at best portrayed as besotted by partisan politics on who voted for what money, auto-pen scandals, a lack of body armor or WMD, and endless committee reports on why/how we screwed it all up. The MSM doesn't even have half of the story right and their continued aggrandizement of the enemy in Iraq only betrays their deeper Anti-Americanism. Why doesn't the MSM focus in on the gravity of what hangs in the balance in Iraq, or who the enemy really is and why they are really doing these awful things. Why not focus in on the successes of our mission and the failures of terrorism. Oh Well, perhaps these hardened war correspondents wouldn't actually recognize the real story in Iraq even if it Blew-Up in front of them. "Democracy in Action Despite the Fear of Death" "Noble People doing Noble Work to Free a Country and Give Hope to a Region" "Free Press in Iraq" "The high Cost of Freedom and its Immeasurable Worth"

[Critical Bill]

"They’re not Insurgents – They're Terrorist Cockroaches

As someone has already said, we do a disservice to cockroaches here ( wondering how long until this thread is "pulled"). However we must be carefull what we say about our Muslim brothers, as to insult them is to raise their ire and we all know what happens to Infidels who insult Muslims. NO, not panties on the head or our tackle fondled , I mean CHOP"off with their heads". With their faces covered and under the shroud of anonymity Arabs can do anything. So the police run away if shots are fired, so Iraqi soldiers ( most except a few brave ones ) evaporate at the first hint of danger, so they sell the lives of their comrades for a couple of dollars, they do not shirk and are indeed delighted, to hack off the head of a bound and gagged innocent, Muslim or Christian makes no matter. And the other thing they excel at is 'Swarming'. Whenever there is death in the air they appear, like vultures, mopping up every body part with their bare hands, howling "Allah' to their god and whining about some imagined wrong-doing centuries before. There is no placating these fundamentalists, ( in case you had forgotten who I am on about) and as they pray for death I too pray for them to receive it from our very own Angels:

[jan in Colorado]

insurgent ping

[Gritty]

Both the Administration and the military have widely used the term "insurgents". They may well be echoing the MSM. I don't know who started it first.

If they want to change the tune, they should stop using the word and use a more appropriate word, like "terrorists". They are also at fault here for the constant use of the word.

We have become so obsessed with not offending anybody, we don't even want to offend our enemies. Heaven forbid we make them mad at us!