TO the Left, it is all Vietnam and Nazis.

The rest of us can pick up a history book and know that most of the War for Independance was fought with coventional armies, fighting in uniform.

bravo.

semper fi.

Oh the irony. A media head says something disgusting like this, and Media Matters has nothing to say about it. Why am I not shocked?

Brian Williams - another smug, conceited, dishonest arrogant, stupid ignorant big media quisling.

Let's rather his Ken-Hair ass.

I am especially impressed by that blasphemous document those American Terrorists wrote - The Bill of Rights; lets hope that their fellow terrorists in Iran are not as radical.

Good gawd. How do these fuckers get a job?

Nice work, Ace.

How do they get a job? It's because other fuckers with the same mentality hire them. It's the ones that don't think like the others that don't make it inside.

The Globe still hasn't agreed what a terrorist is, but outside the Arab countries and Israel(and those in America inordinantly influenced by Israel), a consensus is forming.....

1. Africa, Latin America, even Europe is trending towards agreeing that those who fight transnational conflicts outside uniform are unlawful combatants who may be punished up to...exceptfor Euroweenies...execution.

2. Indians attacking civilian settler wagon trains in the US, French partisans killing Nazi soldiers and civilian officials, and Palestinians killing Israeli occupying troops and armed colonists are not Terrorists. Nazis, Japanese occupying troops, french colonialists, even Israelis may loosely term all opposition to them in occupied nations "terrorism", but clearly the term is narrower than "our enemies".

3. Outside the members of the Religion of Peace and Euroweenie Lefties - few dispute executing a pregnant Israeli mother and her three helpless daughters was an act of terrorism. Few dispute 9/11 as terrorism. Few call Madrid 3/11, car bombing Shiites in a mosque, Tamil Tigers bombing a marketplace full of civilians, or Beslan legitimate. Members of the RoP made a big mistake in refusing to acknowledge there is a difference between killing Zionist Occupiers, and those within Israel proper, on grounds they do not differentiate between Israel pre-1967 Borders and the 4th Geneva-violating armed colonizing that Zionists engage in outside Israel Proper.

Some working definitions:

A. Legitimate combatants - Uniformed combatants of a regular Army or indigenous freedom fighters, partisans - who, excepting indigenous who cannot practically don uniforms - adhere to the laws of conducting warfare.

B. Unlawful combatants - Regular Army outside uniform or indigenous resistance that operates outside the Hague Conventions.

C. War criminals - Uniformed military that deliberately violate war fighting conduct, in a gravely serious fashion.

D. Terrorists Those who deliberately target unarmed civilians, for the most part, in manner outside all recognized conduct of war, to achieve political ends.

There actually WERE terrorists in the Revolutionary War.
They were called the English, who made war on civilians (including burning out whole towns and taking hostages) and who hired the Indians, who never even heard of civilized war, to brutalize farmers in the Carolinas and the New England states.

I've often heard leftists say, "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter."

Of course, a "freedom fighter" is somebody who fights for freedom. The word freedom has an actual meaning, and it isn't theocracy. If they aren't fighting for freedom, they aren't freedom fighters.

Exactly why does Asshat Williams have to editorialize anyway? Why not report the fact and then shut the fuck up, Brian? How hard can that be?

The Founding Fathers were soldiers and scholars who fought on their home territory against an authoritarian monarchy that routinely ruled through repression and fear. The "insurgents" in Iraq are largely foreign born who think nothing of murdering children in order to fell a brand new government of the people in order to install a rigid Islamic dictatorship. OK, sure they're the same fucking thing.
Washington and the revolutionaries consisently acted in the most noble traditions of warfare. If they had committed atrocities, the revisionist history books in a lot of schools would certainly have dwelled on that. Zarqawi and his merry band of psychopaths sawed a kid's head off and put it on display for the world to see. Anyone who cannot see the moral distinctions between the two is someone who probably has trouble not pissing or shitting themselves. I would love to tear into that blow-dried shitbird Brian Williams, but "newstwat mannequin" is hard to top.

Come on, ace, learn a little history. George Washington frequently took aid workers hostage and beheaded them. Since they didn't have cam corders or Al Jazeera back then, he brought along expert draghtsmen to draw "atrocity" cartoons, which he then sent to Punch magazine. And don't fortget the time Washington razed the headquarters of the Ladies' Croquet Club with his sloop of war, USS Heavenly Butchery. Freedom fighter my ass.

BREAKING NEWS: Dan Rather has just unveiled a genuine 1773 memo in Times New Roman font with a photograph of Washington wearing a t-shirt that says “Ye Olde Terroriste”.

In other news, I just posted some cat pictures on my blog for Jeff Goldstein.

How can you seriously defend our Founders? Do you not recall the unconscionable tossing of the tea into the Boston Harbor?

TallD, that should be the caption on a t-shirt with a picture of Williams against a larger picture of Washingon Crossing the Deleware.

Great job, Ace. I think you may have been a bit tough on Williams, though. It isn't really his fault he said what he did. Evidently the tanning bed rays have finally affected his brain.

Tea in the Harbour! Ah Ha - environmental terrorists too. God I feel so ashamed! I'm going to rush out and contribute to UNISEF.

Well said!

Let me get this straight, Ace. Our Army Air Force bombed the Messerschmitt plant at Augsburg and the ball bearing plant at Schweinfurt, legitimate military targets, while wearing uniforms. They also fire bombed the civilian population of Dresden , also while wearing uniforms. Now... they dropped their bombs ( hit ) and then flew away ( run, or ran) a standard guerilla tactic. Now since the uniforms were not brightly colored with distintive insignia and distingishable from a distance, as the rules of war require...were the brave airmen of our Army Air Force... carrying out orders; terrorists or simply guerillas? War is Hell and all's fare in love and war. So, let's cut out the cry-baby, bedwetter crap about who's fighting fare and stop lamenting that they're not coming at us with T-72's and Mig-31's like in a real war.

To treat your questions as serious Dane:

USAAF uniforms were distinctive and had identifying insignia. You could easily tell the difference between them and Luftwaffe uniforms. Also, the airplanes they were flying had distinguishing insignia -- the white star in a blue circle. If American flyers had flown missions in aircraft marked with German insignia -- then they would have been in trouble.

The rules of war do not forbid camoflauge - just civilian clothes. n.b. You can actually wear civilian clothes legally as long as you have some sort of distignuishing insignia, such as an armband. Members of the Volksturm (WWII German Home Guard) who were captured by the Western Allies were treated as legimate combatants as long as they were wearing their armband.

The funny part is that Williams thinks he made a REALLY clever and intelligent point. Idiot.

Thank God these people are being exposed for who they really are.

I am as conservative right as a guy can be and I find myself defending a media member. I've heard Brian Williams on Hannity and he seemed interested if not aligned to red state patriotism and values.
And I noticed he was in the pages of my book Operation Iraqi Freedom. I have a hard time thinking that this guy who experienced danger in war and lived with and was protected by GI's root for their very threat. I just can't imagine him actually equivocating beheaders with our founders. The book shows that NBC staffers have met celebratory and thankful Iraqi individuals. He's gotta know this was the war was the right thing to do and our military are on the side of good.

So in my opinion
Dumb quote? yeah
Bad Brian Williams ? jury's still out

American Revolutionary: "Give me liberty or give me death."

Iranian Theocrat:"Give me YOUR liberty or I will give YOU death."

Those unable to spot the difference aren't to be reasoned with in any event.

Brainless brian williams yeah and i suppose that the WEATHER UNDERGROUND were great heros and that PANCHO VILLA was GREAT FREEDOM FIGHTER and that the STAR SPANGLED BANNER is a song glorifying war and death and should be replaced with that stupid AGE OF AQUARIUS and that the BALD EAGLE should be replaced with a dumb rainbow chicken why dont brian williams just jump in a lake