Iraqi resistance fighters

why is it that during the German occupation of France in world war 2 that the French resistance fighters were deemed heroes for their trying to oust the invading forces, yet the Iraqi resistance fighters are 'cowards', 'criminals', 'terrorists' and desperate men' for doing the same against the invading and now occupying US forces?
Double standards or is there actually a difference?
if the UK was to be invaded would we just lie down and let the enemy crack on (as is expected in Iraq) or would we regroup and fight on to try and liberate ourselves?

 

About the only difference I can see is that at the moment the Iraq's don't care who else is caught up in it all i.e redcross, their own countrymen, or whoever.

 

the iraqi resistance are fighting to reinstate a muderous tyranny or bringing in a taliban like regimne which nobody wants to live under.

 

Excellent question Theatreman.
Of course the decision as to whether these men are terrorists or freedom fighters will depend on which side you're on; as ever!
Do remember that it runs very deeply in the mindset of many millions that America is 'The Great Satan'.
To have imagined there would not be significant resistance to this occupation would be naive.
I understand that the coalition forces have made many Iraqi soldiers redundant and are not using them in the new Iraqi Army.
These proud soldiers have been stripped of their work and their livelihoods and are expected to queue for daily handouts...hardly a surprise if some take to forming themselves into resistance groups is it?

 

Blondebint said

Is that the same ones who surrendered, without fighting or who changed into civvy clothes and mixed with the rest of the population?

To me they cant be described as "proud soldiers"

 

True.
Look how most yanks saw the IRA, A romantic brave mick in green being chased though lands by the dastardly thug red coats.
After 9/11 there attitude towards them and funding changed

 

Could the difference not lie in what the majority of iraqi citizens want? I agree that Iraqis would welcome the chance to be free and govern themselves, however they (the majority) are keen for the coalition forces to rebuild their country, after the years of systematic neglect it received at the hands of saddam.

 

Distillation of all this is that you have to look at the cause for which your "freedom fighter/terrorist" is fighting.

Were Khmer Rouge or Sandinistas freedom fighters, just because they were fighting central government? I suggest no.

As has been said above the Iraqis and their allies who are blowing themselves/any soft target up are fighting for Tyranny be it Baathist or Religious.

Whatever the shortcomings of the troops in theatre the end state they are trying to achieve is infinitely preferable to that offered by the alternatives.

 

the sandinista's won getting rid of a vicious Tyranny plus they defeated the frankly evil contras. Now the khmer rouge were real Bastards and maggie sent the gun club to train them must have been the vitamin injections

 

except the iraqi resistance who obviously have a lot of support, how else can you fire 29 RPGs at a hotel that is being used as a US military barracks and get away? as in NI they must have the backing of a lot of the local population

 

so once again i ask you, if the uk were to be invaded, isnt this exactly what our forces would do? (except the surrender bit, but then again in the present climate with the type of individual being recruited, who knows?)
do we not have plain clothed soldiers on the streets of NI? mixing with the rest of the population? tell me that they are not proud soldiers.

 

you really think there fighting to bring a nice arab regimne power like er name one?

 

theyre fighting to get rid of the occupying forces, as we would, and remember that it is an arab country invaded by a christian army.
what do we expect them to do? roll over and give up?

 

I agree with you Theatreman.
Imagine a bunch of spams roadblocking the end of YOUR road and throwing their weight around. All you serving soldiers are suddenly out of work and forced to queue for handouts so you can feed your family,
while the spams recruit civvys and pay them and train them to do YOUR soldiering! Oh and this is the 'great satan' not allies.
What will you do? resist or collaborate?