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Originally posted by theking
When there is no longer an Airforce...Navy or Army that is resisting...is the first clue that the Military forces have been defeated...thus what ever resistence is left are those of "insurgents" and in the case of Iraq...foreign fighters that are considered to be "terrorists" from different "terrorist" orgs.
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No doubt we destroyed their airforce, navy and anything that's made of metal and moves.... if they are/were part of the Iraqi military, when are they stripped of this?
I would say (if they continue to fight) - when they die.
Think of it in reverse....
Think of it like this....
Another country invades us (the US), kills 80% of our military, overthrows our goverment & installs a new one.
Let's even say most (70%) of our civilians are happy with this change, despite huge amounts of civilian casualties.
Now there are still the ex-ruling 10% that oppose the new government (because it detests them), and the remaining 20% of our military that still answers and obeys that ex-ruling 10% (because it's their job).
So this remaining 20% military continues to fight off the newly installed goverment however they can....
OUR military, fighting off the invading country (regardless if we were an evil country or not)....
Are our GI's terrorists or insurgents at this point? Or are they still doing their job as members of the United States military?