"So called Terrorists"????

[Perky]

Helen Thomas has been great for years....but she lost me on that one.

[arcadian]

1. I happen to agree with her.

n/t

[GCP]

2. And then the question about nukes

We all know Israel and Pakistan has them :shrug:

[Uzybone]

8. Age gets to us all

she really failed with her question.

[Mass]

12. Pakistan is in the Middle East? I guess she wanted to see if he acknowledged that Israel had them.

He did not. She made her point.

[dgibby]

3. Not everyone believes the gov'ts offical version of 9/11,

and some say one person's terrorist is another's freedom fighter. Having said that, I don't presume to know what Helen actually meant.:shrug:

[arcadian]

6. I think she meant that sometimes when Hellfire missiles are fired from Globalhawk

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles into villages on the Pakistani frontier, most of the time they don't hit "terrorists", often times they hit wedding parties.

[Political Heretic]

4. You have a problem with the truth?

I'm sorry... have they been convicted of something? No? Then they are so-called terrorists.

[bridgit]

5. No, they are 'alleged', so-called is in the vein of asking an as-such Q...

[Bucky]

7. Nope

The way the Taliban treated the women of Afghanistan is not so-called terrorism. The people who did it are very much terrorists. You don't need a court conviction to know that evil is evil.

[arcadian]

10. Who did what, Bucky?

What are you talking about?

[Bucky]

13. gfe

But just to help ya look here ==> http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/library/documents/reports/talibans-war-on-women.pdf

and here ==> http://www.rawa.org/rules.htm

and here ==> http://www.afghanistannewscenter.com/news/1998/february/feb3c1998.htm

and here ==> http://www.islamfortoday.com/afghanistanwomen4.htm

[Ken Burch]

11. Which is why the U.S. should never have worked to overthrow the government BEFORE the Taliban

That government was secular and never denied women healthcare or education.

[H2O Man]

9. I thought that

she meant it in a different way than others here. I think she was speaking of "so-called terrorists" in reference to the connections that the individuals in question have to part of the Pakistani intelligence community. However, I recognize that I could be wrong.