So now we refer to the enemy as "alleged insurgents" ?

[sabra]

<<SNIP>>
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7777352/

U.S. troops battle alleged insurgents in Iraq
U.S. says up to 4 Marines, 100 militants slain; Baghdad blasts

<</SNIP>>

Why are we in this alleged war?

[mwb970]

1. Ask our alleged president. (n/t)

[Norquist Nemesis]

2. Give it a couple more months

They'll be rebels

[Benhurst]

4. And as soon as we are kicked out, Iraqi Patriots.

[NewJeffCT]

3. well, allegedly, major combat operations are over

Oops, I guess they're not.

[Richard Steele]

5. We shoot anything that moves, then ALLEGE that they were insurgents.

"Anyone who runs is an INSURGENT;
anyone who stands still is a
WELL-DISCIPLINED insurgent!"

[whistle]

6. The war is most definitely happening, nothing alleged about....

...the war in Iraq. As for alleged insurgents, I suppose that's just another way the military has for explaining attacks against anything that moves around U.S. troops.

[emulatorloo]

7. Ask CNN about the 'Alleged Memo' that surfaced in a 'British Tabloid'

should tell you all you need to know about the media and their spin


http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/05/07.html

Scroll down to the story "88 members of Congress demand answers about the Bush/Blair Pre-War deal" and watch the video from CNN ---- appalling

[kliljedahl]

8. Except for on Faux

Thry're all

TERRORISTS

there.


Keith’s Barbeque Central

[Freedom_from_Chains]

9. Not a new approach really

We spent 10 years or so in Vietnam which never became more than a conflict, even though a little more than 50,000 Americans died in this conflict.

[zbdent]

10. I wanted to know how you tell the difference between

"foreign" insurgents and Iraqi Jihadists

from the bits and pieces left from the bomber scattered among the bits and pieces left from the victims . . .

[TWiley]

11. Evidently, we kill 1 terrorist for every 100 civilians.

They cannot sort out the good dead people from the bad dead people, so they have adopted this new verbage.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

12. Used to be known as "collateral damage" or civilian casualties.

Military PR is still trying to make killing palatable.