When did "Insurgents" become "terrorists"?

[bif]

Noticed that in the Detroit News. What bullshit.

[Reverend_Smitty]

1. even before that...

when did people defending their home against foreign invaders become insurgents?

[El Fuego]

4. Technically WE'RE the insurgents anyway.

in·sur·gent
noun
1 : a person who rises in revolt against civil authority or an established government.

That would be us, overthrowing the ESTABLISHED GOVERNMENT of Iraq.

[Jacobin]

2. The same time Iraq Attacked us on 9/11

That's when.

[MrModerate]

3. When you sow chaos, you get -- you guessed it --

More chaos.

The anti-invader forces in Iraq are "insurgents," because they operate in opposition to a legally elected government, regardless of how ineffective and corrupt that government might be. They're terrorists because of their tactics, which are to render the invaders and the government powerless to govern through sowing terror (again proving the impossibility of making war on a tactic).

[treestar]

5. Terrorist is becoming an all purpose word

Now it just means "anti-American" too. A person no long needs to carry out hijackings or the like to be a "terrorist." The media will slap the label onto any type of opposition to anything, just to make it all more dramatic.

[malaise]

6. The day before you became one too

Remember 'those who're not with us are against us'. Bushco was serious but no one was listening.