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Originally posted by Strange Famous
This is almost Orwellian 1984 logic. The Iraqi people are terrorists because they try to defend themselves against an invading army?
Where the American colonialists who though the British army terrorists, during the War of American Independance?
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We offer them no reason to defend themselves, the average Iraqi citizen is not being attacked. The ones that are attacking us are terrorists because of their tactics; Driving buses into the UN headquarters, roadside bombs, ambushes with small arms, these are common tactics used by terrorists.
Furthermore, their objectives make them terrorists as well. They are first and foremost out to kill westerners, convert them to Islam, and throw them out of the middle-east. They have a political objective which they push with tactics that insight terror. Terrorists.
You could possibly define the colonialists as terrorists, but don't do it in the U.S. someone's likely to pop you one. They did indeed have political goals, but they used more traditional ways to push them forward. Like engaging in battles, instead of using bombs and hit and run tactics, we got the French to help us out and even did the Naval fighting deal for a while I believe. So while we were an army of people with a political goal, we did not use tactics commonly attributed to terrorists.