"NOYB" wrote in message
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"Doug Kanter" wrote in message
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Cheney got the horse laugh a while back when he claimed 'the insurgency
is on it's last legs' and was immediately contradicted by the CIA,
Pentagon, State, etc etc. Since it looks like about 40% of the public
will swallow *any* lie from Bush, no matter how ridiculous, one wonders
why he's even trying.

Maybe for the slow folks in the class...like yourself. Consider this
the equivalent of being left back in class, and you're now getting a
second chance to learn the material.

So, you're saying the insurgency is NOT on its last legs, and that the
agencies whose people are in Iraq (as opposed to a golf course in
Virginia) are completely wrong?

Those people are wrong in referring to the people blowing up car bombs as
"insurgents". The "insurgency" (Saddam's Fedayeen henchmen) is certainly
in its final throes. What you're seeing now are foreign-born terrorists.

Prime Minister al-Jaafari explained it best in an interview with David
Gregory the other day:


GREGORY: Vice President Cheney said a few days ago that he thinks the
insurgency is in its final throes. Do you agree with that?

AL-JAAFARI: Indeed. It's true. We do not call them insurgents. We call
them terrorists. Because that's what they do. They carry out acts of
terrorism against innocent people, men, women and children and it is true
that with the help of friends and with the support of our friends and with
our securing our borders, we will very soon defeat terrorism.

GREGORY: Well, here's a different view. The top military commander in the
Persian Gulf actually disagrees with the vice president, saying that the
insurgency is as strong today as it was six months ago. This after
successful elections in January. This after a political process that's
moving toward a constitution in August. Why hasn't the insurgency been
brought to its heels?

AL-JAAFARI: I certainly, again, would not call this an insurgency. I would
call it a group of terrorists who are out to kill as many people as
possible. That is easy to do. Anyone can come in and blow himself up and
choose the softest targets possible and carry out acts of terror.

And all of them come from outside Iraq and they admit this freely on TV
when they are interrogated.

"Insurgents" only refers to people who have a social base and have
support. They carried out either armed uprising or peaceful uprising like
Gandhi but these are no such thing. They are terrorists.

This is the silliest thing you've said in a long time.