New Bush/Pentagon lingo for 'Insurgents'....

[indianablue]

First of all their first term 'Insurgents' is wrong. I do not endorse their action but 'Rebel' or 'Resistance Fighters' is a more appropriate term.

The new term.......

Anti-Iraqi Forces or AIF...

just heard it by some military talking head.

[tk2kewl]

1. seems to me most everyone fighting on both sides is Anti-Iraqi

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[Ian David]

2. More Bush lingo for insurgents: Unfreedomators

[nostamj]

3. which, run through the BushOrwell-O-Gram machine

translates as ANTI-AMERICAN OCCUPATION FIGHTERS

[benburch]

4. Actually, Insurgent is a correct term.

Look it up.

[housewolf]

5. No shame

This administration just has no shame when it comes to the extents to which it will ge in turning a phase into its opposite, does it? More shameful tactics brought to us by the folks at BushCo.

[lawladyprof]

6. This is Orwellian (again). Since they are Iraqis that would make them

Ant-Iraqi Iraqis. Actually, it is designed, IMHO, to de-emphasize the proportion of insurgents who are native Iraqis (angry at being invaded, angry at how they have been treated, angry because of the death of loved ones, destruction of homes, etc.). We've seen this before with stories/emphasis on "foreign fighters." It is also designed to direct the public away from any possible morphing of the insurgency into civil war.

[Solly Mack]

7. But people here predicted this months & months ago

Once they established the interim govt.,then anyone opposing the occupation could be said to be "anti-Iraqi"...spinning it as not fighting against the Americans...but going against the new Iraq govt. itself.

They've gone between using insurgent and anti-Iraqi forces for a few months now. They've been testing the term out.

See? With the elections in January, Americans will be there "at the request of the Iraqi govt." SO it will no longer be an American lead invasion...but aid to a struggling sovereign nation who now officially has a "terrorists" problem.

Shortly, very shortly, Iraqis who are now labeled "insurgents" and "anti-iragi forces" will be called "terrorists"...threatening the security of Iraq. Now, while people currently bandy about "links to Al Quaeda" and "outside forces" when speaking of the "attacks" on American soldiers and interim Iraqi officials/police, no one's really called the Iraqis fighting against the occupation terrorists...yet. But soon they will be...and we'll see a crack down in Iraq that we haven't seen yet. See? If you're still mad about the occupation and you're Iraqi, then you must be a terrorists...hellbent on treason, because an "election" was held and Iraq has a new, "sovereign" govt.

So everyone with a different opinion will become a terrorists.


The language will continually change to fit the reality Bush Inc want people to buy into.