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Neil...

Its all perception, in any war...

If resistance fighters were on your side and "win" they are heroes. If
those same resistance fighters were on the other side they were terrorists.

If resistance fighters were on the other side and "lose" they were
terrorists. If those same resistance fighters were on your side they were
heroes/martyrs..


"Neil Hoskins" wrote in message
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"Bobby Galvez" wrote in message
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Neil Hoskins wrote:

The shooting down of Yamamoto's aircraft was an assassination..

Arguably. When they tried to target Sadam during the invasion of Iraq
there
was some discussion of this. It turns out that Churchill was reluctant
to
assassinate Hitler. Think about it: if it was legal for the USAF to
attempt
to take out Saddam, would it also be legal for the Iraqi insurgents to
send
a suicide bomber to London to target Blair? You have to be very careful
with the law and "OK" doesn't always equate to "legal".

The whole point to "insurgents" is that they operate against governments.
Nothing they do is "legal."

BobbyG

Oh, I see. So the French Resistance were "illegal"? The Yugoslav
partisans? What about the soldiers of the American Revolutionary War?
And, since Hamas were democratically elected, presumeably anybody who
opposes them is an illegal insurgent? I see, that's all so simple, thanks
for explaining. Presumeably you're one of Dubya's top advisors?