Why is it that when GIs take someone by force from their home it is called

[Bandit]

an arrest but when the Iraqis take a GI it is called a kidnapping? :shrug: Just another way to cleanse what we do compared to them doing the same thing. They commit a crime and we liberate.

[2Design]

1. exactly

they are insurgents but when we went up against england in 1776 it was a revolution.....

they use words ....calling people the enemy is objectifying them... so they don't have to think they are ordinary people...

they break in their houses and steal their stuff...

like the usa shipping all iraq heirlooms out of the country....like Germany did as it spread across europe....
this is really bad...

[Dhalgren]

2. Yeah, that's why the US soldiers are heros

for bombing a house in Fallujah, but when an Iraqi bombs a house in Bhagdad, he's an evil-doer/terrist/deadender/foriegner/Al-Kiter.

[oneighty]

3. relativity

depends upon where one stands.

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[Cat Atomic]

4. Because one acts with the authority of a state while the other does not.

In other words, they have a stamp of approval from a bunch of very wealthy aristocrats.

It's the same thing that makes one man an "insurgent" and the other a "soldier". Or one man a "terrorist" and the other a "commando".

[Karenina]

5. Language matters.

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