Words Matter: It's a Resistance, Not an Insurgency.

[nosmokes]

from the google dictionary

often Resistance An underground organization engaged in a struggle for national liberation in a country under military or totalitarian occupation.
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1.The quality or circumstance of being rebellious.
2. An instance of rebellion; an insurgence.

it might have been an insurgency if they risen up against saddam, but i think, at least by these definitions, that what we face in iraq is a resistance, just like the french or polish resistance of WWII, not an insurgency. bushole uses that term to confer some sort of validity to his dominion over iraq and it's resources.

[ugarte]

1. I would agree

An insurgency connotes more of an uprising against an established order/status quo, whereas a resistance against outsiders seems to be what we have now.

Civil war also comes to mind.

[nosmokes]

3. even odds to develop into civil war

or worse, some sort of tribal warfare deal with alliances changing faster than the excuses did for invading iraq when the WMD weren't there, 'to the north, and west and south and east somewhat of baghdad.'

[Old and In the Way]

2. What is Saudi Arabia decided that they had to remove Bush

to protect their investments here? Say they dropped 200,000 troops in on us. However altruistic their motives, I think most of us here would be joining the resistance to show them the proverbial door.

[nosmokes]

4. and rightfully so.

that's my point - by calling them insurgents instead of the more correct term resistance he de-legitimizes(izzat a word?) them. and even more so by usually adding the word foreign in front of it, even though that's been shown to be false.