Insurgents

[mr-pirk]

Insurgents[:'(]

Has anyone else grown tired of hearing murderers called that. I have heard it a number of times today about how, an insurgent, sucide bomber blew up a bus killing 30 or so Iraqie citizens.

No military value to the target at all.

I remember that saying going around several years ago...one man's terrorist...is another man's freedom fighter.

Freedom Fighter has the conatation of some sort of honor associated with it.

There is no honor in so many of the insurgents(terrorist) killings.

Even if you were/are 100% for Iraq and 100% against the USA..when will it finaly be time to start calling some of the insurgents...TERRORIST.

Man I hate this politicaly correct age we live in. I wish the main-stream media would grow a pair and call a murderer a murderer.
There was no justifaction in any, way, shape, or form for the bus bombing.

Thanks
Mr-Pirk

[underdog]

I don't think using the term 'insugent' is an effort to be politcally correct so much as it is a generic term for the folks causing violence in Iraq. Basically the insurgents are composed of three groups.

I. Baathists who are disenfranchised members of Saddam's regime.

II. Foreign fighters who tend to be religous jihadists.

III. al Qaeda members.

The suicide bombers tend to be the jihadists. The other two groups don't really want to die. But a whole lot of them have and will until America and Iraq are victorious over these twisted evil people.

[vc1111]

Mr. Pirk and underdog, you are both right.

The term itself is nondescript but yet accurate.

The PC era has however created a situation in which it would be in poor taste to demonize our enemies as we did in WWII in film and on the radio. If I were King we'd refer to them as murderers or something similar.

Our troops do have a derrogatory term for them but it is not really widely known.

[North Texan]

I have names for them, too, but they aren't politically correct.

My personal favorite is how the media and the Western powers called 9/11, train bombing, etc. acts by terrorists, yet for some reason, the Chechen's killing people and blowing up schools in Russiawith children inside were rebels. Fascinating....[:-]

[CalHunter]

I'm with North texan on this one and have been calling them terrorists.

[Charlie P]

sur·gent (P)Pronunciation Key(n-sûrjnt)
adj.
[ol][*]Rising in revolt against established authority, especially a government.[*]Rebelling against the leadership of a political party. [/ol]
n.

One who is insurgent.

[hr]
[Latin nsurgns, nsurgent- present participle of nsurgere, to rise up : in-, intensive pref.; see in-2 + surgere, to rise; see surge.]
[hr]
in·surgent·ly adv.
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Main Entry: in·sur·gent
Pronunciation: in-'s&r-j&nt
Function: noun
1 : a person who rises in revolt against civil authority or an established government; especially : one not recognized as a belligerent
2 : one that acts contrary to the established leadership (as of a political party, union, or corporation) or its decisions and policies





Source: Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.

Main Entry: insurgent
Function: adjective
: rising in opposition to civil or political authority or against an established government





Source: Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.

insurgent
adj : in opposition to a civil authority or government [syn: seditious, subversive] n 1: a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions) [syn: insurrectionist, freedom fighter, rebel] 2: a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment [syn: guerrilla, guerilla, irregular]