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To: Rainy_Day_Woman who wrote (1915)	7/20/2005 10:35:07 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541281

It wasn't about sugar coating it. It was about acknowledging reality. That you see it as sugar coating, is about as logical as the frenzy people got in to when I said suicide bombers weren't cowards. Just because someone is bad, it doesn't mean you can't describe them appropriately. Just because someone is a terrorist, it doesn't mean when we put out an APB on them we want to say "and they are UGLY too." Can you see how it might be unhelpful to try to throw in qualifiers that are not apt, or exclude ones that are? It shouldn't mitigate what is dangerous and criminal to adequately describe something- and in the end, it ought to help you fight the thing you find dangerous. If you oversimplify you can be prone to mistakes.

To: Rainy_Day_Woman who wrote (1915)	7/20/2005 10:44:05 AM
From: MulhollandDrive	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541281

another example of sugar coating terrorism.. note the use of 'rebels' and 'militant' instead of terrorist reuters, of course alertnet.org Algerian rebels kill 5 politicians, guards - report 18 Jul 2005 10:34:03 GMT Source: Reuters ALGIERS, July 18 (Reuters) - Algerian Islamic militants set fire to forests west of the capital Algiers and then killed two municipal officials and three police guards they lured into an ambush, local newspapers reported on Monday. The militants attacked their convoy, killing five and wounding eight others in a skirmish near Ain Defla, 150 km (90 miles) west of Algiers that lasted 20 minutes, the papers reported, citing security sources. Algerian authorities were not available for comment. El Khabar newspaper said members of the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) set forests near Ain Defla ablaze to draw officials to the area. Fifteen rebels hiding on both sides of a road then fired with assault rifles on the passing cars. Among the dead was the deputy mayor of Tachta, a town near Ain Defla. The GSPC, aligned to al Qaeda, is blamed for the killings of thousands of soldiers and civilians since its creation in 1998 to overthrow the ruling authorities and set up a purist Islamic state. The oil producing North African country is emerging from more than a decade of Islamic-linked violence, which has killed up to 200,000 people.