When Your Ostensible Ally Says Blowing Up Your Troops isn't Terrorism....

[G_j]

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/5170

When Your Ostensible Ally Says That Blowing Up Your Troops Shouldn't Be Called Terrorism, It's Time to Head Home

Submitted by davidswanson on Fri, 2005-11-25 22:35. Media
By Dave Lindorff, http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/

If anything should have Americans of all political stripes calling for an immediate return of all US troops from Iraq, it would be the Iraqi summit conference in Egypt earlier this week, hosted by Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak, at which it was decided that attacking and blowing up US, British and other occupation troops should not be called "terrorism," but rather "acts of resistance."

That's pretty shocking, wouldn't you say?

And yet, there has been nothing but silence from the right-wing yak shows, little in the mainstream media, and nothing from the White House.

And how about the "support our troops" crowd? So far, not a word.

..more..

[Deja Q]

1. Where are the "Support Our Troops Yet We Don't Enlist" folks on this?

Excellent question.

Probably out finding Condi-wannabes.

[JNelson6563]

2. Not a peep in the Corporate Media that I know of

You'd think this would set off a firestorm. Oh wait. That's why it's kept quiet.

Ugh.

Julie

[xchrom]

3. the corporate media ws relieved to hear that statement

-- it meant the endless war could go on.

[G_j]

4. actually

right after posting this I heard Daniel Shorr on NPR mention the conference, but not in any detail.

[Jara sang]

5. That is the definition of clusterfuck over there.

Post Saddam Iraq = Ally. We kill Iraqi civilians daily. Insurgents kill U.S. soldiers. Iraqi leadership says killing U.S. soldiers is OK.

[leftchick]

6. LOL! Check out the verbal gymnastic response from the State Dept!

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/iraq/20051122-1507-us-iraq-conference.html

In Iraq
State Department says Iraqis are not endorsing terrorism


The headline is surreal enough.....



WASHINGTON – Responding to a statement by Iraqis recognizing a right of resistance, the State Department on Tuesday said they had endorsed neither terrorism nor violence.

"They are calling on people to confront terrorism, so I think that is certainly very positive," spokesman Sean McCormack said of a statement adopted by Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish leaders at a reconciliation conference in Cairo, Egypt, backed by the Arab League.


The statement, he said, deals with the legitimate right to peaceful protest, peaceful expression of differences. And, he said, the United States had "no quarrel with that idea."

"Take a look at exactly what they are doing," McCormack told reporters at the daily department briefing for the news media. "They are coming out against violence."

.... uh okie dokie then! :eyes:

[G_j]

8. I just spent about twenty minutes trying to find

the actual conference statement, but no luck.
I was going to compare McCormack's spin with what was actually said.
I'll search more later.

[leftchick]

9. Here....

<snip>

The document said: ``Though resistance is a legitimate right for all people, terrorism does not represent resistance. Therefore, we condemn terrorism and acts of violence, killing and kidnapping targeting Iraqi citizens and humanitarian, civil, government institutions, national resources and houses of worships.''

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5433476,00.html

Nothing there about acts of violence against the occupiers! Bring The Troops Home Now!

[leftchick]

7. kick

another important story fast falling down the memory hole.