Reply #24: I would respectfully disagree [View All]

[OldLeftieLawyer]

Your definition, while your own, is wrong. Look up "improvised" and "makeshift." You would define as "improvised" a piece of handmade jewelry? No, the language of the occupation is quite deliberate and very misleading. Don't buy into it. Seriously, check the definitions.

They are not descriptive of what the "insurgents" are doing. Their weapons are just as carefully planned and crafted as ours, albeit on much smaller scales.

Words are weapons, especially in times like these. Those words are carefully selected to cause the "insurgents" to appear less-than-organized, when, in fact, they're killing our military are a very organized rate.

I never proposed "everyone using the same word," and I'm not sure how you got that notion from my words. In fact, I was railing AGAINST that precise concept, since that's what the MSM is doing by using the words of the government.

And those words are deliberately inaccurate, deceptive, and misleading.

Seriously. Check those definitions. I live and die by good dictionaries, I must admit. They're the coin of my realm, and, in my work as a lawyer and as a novelist, they must always be precise. That's why this aspect of the Iraq occupation is particularly jarring to me.