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Published: Sep 16, 2005 01:41 PM
Wed - March 9, 2005
A Rose By Any Other Name Still Has Thorns
- • Now that they have beheaded more than a half dozen male and female non-combatants
• Now that they have kidnapped dozens more
• Now that they have executed scores of police officers in raids or by firing bullets into their brains at close range
• Now that they have exploded bombs outside mosques and hospitals
• Now that they have publicly applauded the beating and torching of American aid workers in Fallujah
• Now that they have threatened Iraqi citizens with death or torture for voting
• Now that they have called democracy an "infidel" process and have sworn to destroy it
• Now that they have executed a judge committed to bringing the former dictatorship to justice
• Now that they have publicly allied themselves with Al Qaeda
can we stop romanticizing Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's thugs in Iraq with the label "insurgents" and substitute a more accurate term like "fascists"?
Apparently not.