> But it seems they captured the British sea patrol in response to the
> U.S. Army seizing Iranian staff in Iraq on no doubt equally specious
> grounds. They may not be impeccably morally right, the incident at sea
> may even have actually taken place at a geographic point closer to a
> Mean High Water Line on the Iraqi shoreline than an MHWL in Iran, but
> the fact remains that they didn't initiate this provocation from thin
> air out of sheer perversity.
Did anybody notice how Bush referred to these British sailors as being "hostages"? Or how the media has been using "hostages" in their reporting on this incident?
Since when are prisoners held by a government called hostages?
Does this mean that all those inmates at Gitmo are hostages?
Or what about the 2 million Americans who are being held hostage in prisons and jails?
Chuck
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