Iraqi insurgents: terrorists or freedom fighters?

Question

We invaded Iraq, took over their country, murdered many civilians. The insurgents, or "terrorists" who fight back, are demonized by mainstream America. Now, if the Mexican, Canadian, Chinese, or Russian, or whatever foreign army invaded the States, took over, murdered our people, wouldn't we be doing the same thing to them what the Iraqi "terrorists" are doing to us? Isn't that what our founding fathers, Patriots, Sons of Liberty, Continental Army did to the Redcoats during the War of Independence??

Also, it's very possible, in fact, it's been PROVEN that 9/11 was an INSIDE JOB. Very similar to the Reichstag incident in 1933. Bush is a NAZI.

I'm serious about this, our rights as well as the rights of other people in the world are at stake. I'm AGAINST Bush because he's against the Constitution and everything that America stands for.

Answer 1

Lame. Are you a Rove plant made to make those who oppose Bush look dumb?

Answer 2

I want to ignore your ignorant comments, but I just want to say the US did not murder civilians.

On the question of the Iraqi insurgents being terrorist or freedom fighters. Well let's think, we invaded a country that was ruled by a very ruthless and vicsious dictator. He ruled his country by fear. We invaded and freed the Iraqi people of this tyrant. Now we have helped them set up a free democratic government. The people are allowed to protest in the streets now, something they couldn't do before during Saddam's rule. These people have been given freedom, so how can you say that Iraqi insurgents are freedom fighters? They aren't fighting for the countries freedom. The US is not standing in the way of these people being free. The insurgents fight because they want a strict Islamic-law based government, some fight because they want the country to go back to when Saddam ruled it (probably because they benefited from other's suffering), then finally others fight because they aren't smart enough to know that the US will leave when everything is stable, so the more unstable things become the more hard headed and stubborn the US can and will get and then hang around longer to make sure things are safe for the majority of Iraqi citizens.

These insurgents are terrorists, because when does bombing a mosque hurt the Americans? It doesn't it only hurts the Iraqis and for that matter alone these people are terrorists. You can't be a freedom fighter when freedom has already been given to you.

Answer 3

Insurgents? That's a word that's abused by the anti-American socialist elitist hypocritical scumbags within the mainstream media and corruptament, thus most educated people clearly understand that the so-called insurgents are without a doubt terrorists of which many of them hail from Iran, Syria, and Pakistan... to join forces with the Iraqi terrorists, and as for freedom fighters, that's absurd given that nearly all citizens of Mid-Eastern countries live in bondage under despotic 7th century rule...

Answer 4

Actually the insurgents you are talking about are not all Iraqi any more. They are mostly other fighters from other countries that are coming into Iraq to fight the US. There are handfulls of Iraqis that want the Americans dead, but its mostly other countries like Iraq, Serbia, and places like that. At one point we were taking on Saddam loyalists and the like, not any more. So these Iraqi "terrorists" that you speak of are actually that. They are insurgents from other countries. Its not Iraqis that are demonized as you call it, but rather, terrorists in general. People only put the face of a Middle Easterner to the word terrorism because thats been the face thats shown in the media for years.

Answer 5

No, Al-Qaeda is against America and everything WE (soldiers) stand for. These insurgents? the ones who kidnapp, brutally torture, murder, and TERRORIZE innocent people? Yeah, they are terrorists. There is no glory in what they do, there is no justification in what they do. Most of the guys that are shooting at us arent even Iraqi. And who the hell are you to say that 9/11 was an inside job? What did you look at your friends blog? Did you check out some videos on Youtube? That is bullshit and if you actually believe it you are a moron. If it was "proven" that 9-11 was an inside job where is the coup? where is the impeachment? Oh, thats right, its just some conspiracy theory crap to make you get more comments on your blog. As a US army soldier, I feel inclined to say you can kiss my ***.

Answer 6

Unfortunately you lost me at "9/11 was an inside job" but you have a very fascinating point with the freedom fighters idea. It just goes to show you that it is all about perspective. Now of course, I'm sure that most Americans wouldn't kill each other if we were invaded and I'm sure we wouldn't kill other innocent Americans but we would fight the invaders. There is no way to justify the atrocities that they are committing against each other, but they are doing the same thing anyone else would do if invaded by a foreign nation, except they are taking it to a whole new extreme.

Answer 7

75% of insurgent attacks are against civilians. I don't see how someone can honorably bomb a daycare or market in the name of "freedom."

The DoD estimates that almost half of all insurgents aren't even Iraqi but Saudi, Iranian, Syrian etc.

It is nothing like the US fight for independence as the Continetnal Army did not target civilians. Iraq is not under US rule either. They have a sovereign government that has requested that the US stay.

Answer 8

Ignoring your comments about Bush and 9/11...


Insurgents are fighting for a goal -- terrorists use a particular method, regardless of their goal.

MOST of the Iraqi insurgents are fighting for control of their country, which to them makes them freedom fighters.

Some (not all) use terrorist means, which also makes them terrorists. The ends do not justify the means.

Some of the insurgents are not using terrorist methods --- they are fighting as an armed force against a govt they they do not consider valid -- much as American colonists did fighting for their freedom.

The distinction is in the methods -- using terrorist methods makes you a terrorist regardless of your goals.

Answer 9

There's only one word I use to describe someone who leaves children in a car, and then blows it up: terrorist.
Some people still don't seem to understand that the 750,000 civilian death count was discredited about a year ago. It's closer to 70,000.

Even if you choose to believe the grossly inflated 750,000, according to that same survey, 69% of those did not die as a result of Coalition Forces' presence. Gee, I wonder who might have killed them, the terrorists, maybe?

Answer 10

Freedom Fighters do not blow innocent civilians in markets.

Freedom Fighters are usually local people and not foreign fighters.

Freedom Fighters do not kidnap other Iraqis and shoot them in the head, then stuff their bodies with IEDs and throw their carcasses on the street.

Only terrorists do that; therefore, they are TERRORISTS.

Answer 11

Terrorism is a war tactic, not an ideology. They don't have unlimited funds to buy weapons and unlimited human bodies to waste as Bush does. So they must do what they can to protect what is left of their country.

They will enact revenge on us for the next few generations because of what Bush has done to their country and their loved ones. He has killed 750,000 Iraqis and maimed only God knows how many more. Heaven help us.