I'm sick of Bush referring to everyone who's not on our side in Iraq as a terrorist. This is another disingenous way of conflating Iraq with 9/11. I grant you there is plenty of terrorism in Iraq and I'm happy to call a spade a spade. But someone that pops out in the street with a rocket launcher and fires it at a tank is not a terrorist...they're the enemy. Someone who bombs a police station is not terrorist. People that kidnap members of the press and behead them...well, that's a terrorist. There's civilian casualties in any war and our beloved military has been on the business end of it plenty...see Dresden, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, or My Lai to name a few. Roadside bombs are the tactic our enemy has found successful in fighting their enemy.
Update: Bush spokesman Scott McLellan conflated again today in his press conference about violence in Iraq, "there's great progress being made, but there are those who continue to carry out violent attacks against innocent civilians." So the enemy in Iraq are just plain terrorists and the only people they target are civilians (non-military targets). That's just hogwash but it's same conflation with 9/11 that got them elected. If his statements are true, I guess the 2022 American military casualties and countless Iraqi Army/Police casualties were accidentally in the way because the enemy only aims at civilians.
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