Rumsfeld Seeks Word Change:"the switch was the result of 'an epiphany'

[kpete]

Rumsfeld Seeks Word Change
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld "has decided to avoid using the word 'insurgent' to describe the Iraqis fighting US and Iraqi forces in Iraq," AFP reports. He said "the switch was the result of 'an epiphany' he had over the weekend."

Said Rumsfeld: "I thought to myself, 'You know, that gives them greater legitimacy than they seem to merit."

Of course, Webster's New International Dictionary "defines 'insurgency' as 'a condition of revolt against a legitimate government, not reaching the proportions of an organized revolutionary government, and not recognized as a belligerency.'"
http://www.politicalwire.com/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051129/pl_afp/usiraqrumsfeld_051129200144

[jimshoes]

1. If a foreign power occupied

the US, what would they call us for trying to expel the occupiers?

[lectrobyte]

2. Wolverines!

[DistressedAmerican]

3. Anything To Further Dehumanize The Enemy.

He is right about one thing though. The government in Iraq does not qualify as legitimate.

[flordehinojos]

4. the evil continues being spread by bushco et al.

[walldude]

5. Oh please...

If this man ever had a real epiphany his goddam head would explode. Typical repuke, a thought enters his tiny brain and he thinks it's an epiphany... Dork.

[awoke_in_2003]

6. well the very fact that he actually had a thought

is quite an epiphany :)