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To: LindyBill who wrote (97778)	1/30/2005 8:46:27 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793725

LGF - The Return of Kerry's Magic Hat Well, here you go, if you can stomach another heaping helping of John F. Kerry’s by-now tiresomely predictable bellyaching and posturing; the transcript of his interview with Tim Russert on Meet the Press: MSNBC - Transcript for Jan. 30. The magic hat makes an encore appearance: SEN. KERRY: I still have the hat that he gave me, and I hope the guy would come out of the woodwork and say, “I’m the guy who went up with John Kerry. We delivered weapons to the Khmer Rouge on the coastline of Cambodia.” We went out of Ha Tien, which is right in Vietnam. We went north up into the border. And I have some photographs of that, and that’s what we did. So, you know, the two were jumbled together, but we were on the Cambodian border on Christmas Eve, absolutely. Kerry delivered weapons to the Khmer Rouge? As far as I know, this is a new detail—and one that makes no sense at all. Why would the CIA be running weapons to the communist Khmer Rouge guerillas, when the Cambodian government at the time was anti-Communist and we were fighting communists in North Vietnam? Did Kerry get flustered at Russert’s question and start embroidering again?

To: LindyBill who wrote (97778)	1/30/2005 9:27:21 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793725

<<"Insurgents," in most historical uses, has referred to groups trying to upset an illegitimate or semi-legitimate regime.>> I've been through five dictionary definitions so far and haven't yet come across one that had that connotation. They either mention that the government is legit or don't specify. I don't think the media can be faulted for using the dictionary definition. Much ado about nothing once again.

To: LindyBill who wrote (97778)	1/31/2005 6:16:04 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793725

No more "insurgents," please I agree. It's part of my nomenclature rant. Every time I hear the foreign saboteurs in Iraq called "insurgents" I start foaming at the mouth. We need new words. Part of it is cultural, Arabs don't fight like we do. Or, as one Kurd said on the radio, "Arabs fight like coward. We fight like brave." And part of it is just lack of verbal imagination. The Marines have an interesting Small Wars Center of Excellence that has great information, but they still are stuck using "small war" as a catch-all for a lot of different things. smallwars.quantico.usmc.mil