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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (483542)	10/29/2003 11:54:27 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Is there a difference from the POV of the gov't they are fighting? The IRA considered themselves soldiers; the British considered them terrorists. One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. The answer is Yes to all your questions. Except maybe this one: were the American's fighting in the Phillipines during WWII terrorists? You mean the American soldiers who fought prior to the surrender of American forces in the Phillipines? No. They were soldiers and entitled to treatment as such under the Geneva COnventions on the Treatment of Prisoners of War. After the surrender was another matter. Were the Minutemen in Boston fighting the Redcoats terrorists??? Yes. And they and those guys who signed the Declaration of Independence knew they could expect to be shot or hung if the war was lost.