Subj : The War Has No Clothes
To   : Deuce
From : The Lizard Master
Date : Fri Sep 30 2005 10:17 am

  Re: The War Has No Clothes
  By: Deuce to The Lizard Master on Thu Sep 29 2005 11:57 pm

 >   Re: The War Has No Clothes
 >   By: The Lizard Master to Finnigann on Thu Sep 29 2005 02:38 pm
 > 
 >  > The latest numbers that came out of Iraq now say that 10% of iraqi insurg
 >  > are foreign now.  Bush attributes that to doing a good job of taking the
 >  > outsiders out of the picture, but it could also mean that the Iraqi peopl
 >  > tired of waiting for us to leave.
 > 
 > This is a stunning comment of a couple levels.
 > 1) What exactly is an "Iraqi insurgent"?  How could one be Iraqi and a
 > foreigner in Iraq at the same time?
 > 2) An insurgent is "one that acts contrary to the established leadership (as
 > a political party, union, or corporation) or its decisions and policies" whi
 > incidently, means the americans were the insurgents.  The americans are NOT 
 > established government, so fighting them is NOT insurgency.
 > 

I kinda see where you are coming from, but the bottom line is what we deem
Iraq Insurgents are people fighting us right now in Iraq.  Early on the
percentage of foreign fighters was higher, and now supposedly it's down to 10%.

---TLM

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