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To: TimF who wrote (6716)	5/24/2007 10:40:34 AM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10087

"If they have some other legal label for Baathists who attack American soldiers, or for any army we have fought against in the past, or will fight against in the future, then in terms of legal definitions the Baathists might not be "enemy combatants", but as a matter of normal language they clearly are. Baathism is a mostly Arab, socialist political party that is currently centered in Syria. The regime in Iraq was associated with the broader definition. The enemy combatants in Iraq representing Al-Qaeda may or may not give a hoot about Baathism but the majority would like to see a return of some sort of Sunni power structure, some pushing a fundamental religious aspect while others are backed by the Tyrannical (At least in the Iraq version) Baathist political interests. "The Arabic word Ba'th means "resurrection" or "renaissance" as in the party's founder Michel Aflaq's published works "On The Way Of Resurrection". Baathist beliefs combine Arab Socialism, nationalism, and Pan-Arabism. The motto of the Party is "Unity, Freedom, Socialism". "Unity" refers to Arab unity, "freedom" emphasizes freedom from foreign control and interference in particular, and "socialism" refers to what has been termed Arab Socialism rather than to Marxism." en.wikipedia.org