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karynnj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-08-07 10:36 AM
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17. They'd be called patriots
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  -If America was invaded and occupied would our fighters be called the civil defense or insurgents? NNN0LHI  Jun-08-07 09:25 AM   #0 
  - Well, the occupiers would call them "insurgents." nt  raccoon   Jun-08-07 09:27 AM   #1 
  - GOOD Question! With Today's MSM It's a Tossup  Demeter   Jun-08-07 09:27 AM   #2 
  - the occupiers would control the propaganda machine, er, media  leftofthedial   Jun-08-07 09:28 AM   #3 
  - Are our fighters killing American Civilians?  bryant69   Jun-08-07 09:28 AM   #4 
  - Pentagon says 80% of attacks are against our soldiers  NNN0LHI   Jun-08-07 09:31 AM   #6 
  - Because they have caused thousands of deaths among  pampango   Jun-08-07 09:58 AM   #13 
  - Riiiight. Americans NEVER kill other Americans.  tabasco   Jun-08-07 09:32 AM   #7 
  - What a bizarre response.  bryant69   Jun-08-07 10:11 AM   #15 
  - the cynic in me says yes, this might just happen  unpossibles   Jun-08-07 09:45 AM   #9 
  - The French and Dutch got through the German occupation  pampango   Jun-08-07 10:51 AM   #18 
  - it depends on who wins and gets to write the history.  antifaschits   Jun-08-07 09:30 AM   #5 
  - They'd be called revolutionaries. There is a small precedent for this  Kagemusha   Jun-08-07 09:36 AM   #8 
  - One of the reasons I got my kid out of Boy Scouts.  KansDem   Jun-08-07 09:47 AM   #10 
  - Patriots!  DavidD   Jun-08-07 09:48 AM   #11 
  - I don't know ... let's ask the guy who made "Red Dawn"  zbdent   Jun-08-07 09:52 AM   #12 
  - More interesting question to me is what we would call  jobycom   Jun-08-07 10:08 AM   #14 
  - I'm sure the occupying force would call us "terrorists"  Jack Rabbit   Jun-08-07 10:18 AM   #16 
  - They'd be called patriots  karynnj   Jun-08-07 10:36 AM   #17 
  - Not if they blew up truck bombs at St Patrick's Cathedral during serivices  Tom Rinaldo   Jun-08-07 11:37 AM   #19 
     - Where do you suppose all those terra-ists are getting the Iraqi police and army uniforms from?  NNN0LHI   Jun-08-07 11:51 AM   #20 
     - Could it be that they *are* the Iraqi police??  Oak2004   Jun-08-07 12:09 PM   #21 
     - This has nothing to do with my point  Tom Rinaldo   Jun-08-07 12:32 PM   #22 
        - Bush installed a terra-ist as Iraq's Prime Minister  NNN0LHI   Jun-08-07 02:36 PM   #28 
           - Don, you are taking this as an argument about U.S. actions regarding Iraq  Tom Rinaldo   Jun-08-07 02:47 PM   #30 
              - The Army initially blamed the assault on insurgents...  NNN0LHI   Jun-09-07 01:49 AM   #32 
     - and the insurgents DID NOT learn those tactics from john negroponte..  frylock   Jun-08-07 12:53 PM   #23 
  - They'd be called something more impressive.  ContraBass Black   Jun-08-07 12:55 PM   #24 
  - Fighters would be called Democrats. The new "American" Army would be called Republics.  BuyingThyme   Jun-08-07 12:57 PM   #25 
  - Insurgents, resistance fighters, partisans, freedom fighters  krispos42   Jun-08-07 01:00 PM   #26 
  - If they got rid of gw, we might greet them with flowers.  BlooInBloo   Jun-08-07 01:02 PM   #27 
  - "WOLVERINES!"  Aristus   Jun-08-07 02:46 PM   #29 
  - We would be called the savages and our benevolent civilizers  sfexpat2000   Jun-08-07 02:48 PM   #31 
 

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