"Insurgents" Or "Terrorists" - The Right Flip-Flops

I love the audacity.

In an attempt to spin the recent pronouncements from a Cairo meeting of Iraqi politicians as being what was meant to happen all along, the Right has, under cover of darkness, accepted what the Left has been telling them for more than a year - that there is a difference between insurgents and terrorists in Iraq.

This from Blackfive:

The native Iraqis who have taken arms against the invaders of their country, and who limit their actions to targeting coalition or Iraqi security forces are not terrorists. They are guerrillas or insurgents, and unless they purposely kill innocents or assist the terrorists they should not be called otherwise. We don't have to agree with their aims, but we need to be fair in how we refer to different groups, we did invade their country and overthrow the government they worked for. What people have missed is that when the Sunni leaders insisted on this wording they also explicitly severed any support for the jihadis and the Baathist dead-enders who are terrorists, that is huge. Now we have split the much larger group of Sunnis who had legit worries about whether they could be fairly treated in a federal Iraq, from the scum who are beyond reprieve. It also will free the Sunnis who join the rest of the country rebuilding to provide intel and eliminate the few remaining rat holes the killers hide in.

Lest we forget, amongst all this reasonableness, Blackfive was one of the wingnuts endorsing this nonsense from Tom Sowell at the Baltimore Sun back in January:

Our media cannot even call terrorists "terrorists," but instead give these cutthroats the bland name "insurgents." You might think that these were like the Underground fighters in Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II.

Real insurgents want to get the occupying power out of their country. But the fastest way to get Americans out of Iraq would be to do the opposite of what these "insurgents" are doing. Just by letting peace and order return, those who want to see American troops gone would speed their departure.

But the real goal of the guerrillas and terrorists is to prevent democracy from arising in the Middle East.

Still, much of the Western media even cannot call a spade a spade. The Fourth Estate sometimes seems more like a Fifth Column.

And let's not forget Matt Barber at Free Republic back in December '04:

They’re not Insurgents – They're Terrorist Cockroaches!

An assertion that was widely accepted by the Right.

So...welcome to the Fifth Column, guys. Now it is time to accept that the wheels have come of your carefully constructed Iraqi delusions and admit that you have been deceived by your political masters these last two years. Admit, too, that the only course left is withdrawal from a war that should never have been gotten into in the first place.