Re:news items; (The Shrub's desire to risk more troops) what is or is meant by the term "the Fifth Column"?

The term has shown up twice today in news articles. I don't remember ever seeing/hearing it before. It relates to the opposition to The Shrub's desire to send more of our troops into harm's way. Please help! Thanks, everybody!

Re:news items; (The Shrub's desire to risk more troops) what is or is meant by the term "the Fifth Column"?
5 th column is derived from one of german-french wars, during which 4 columns of armed forces were to march into france, while "the fifth" was already present in france featuring press, defeatism and progerman-saboteurs.


the terminus is used to adress the people in your homeland that are acting against your war effort.
Reply:You already have the Wikipedia site given to you. Many writers use a tongue-in-cheek approach with a broad literary license in placing politically motivated stories in the news; you may also recognize this clumsy tactic used by budding journalists on this site. Having the context where your term was used would help. Chances are they are referring to people that are, like the Democrats (and some Republicans) here in the states, trying to sabotage the war effort from within. It doesn't, at present time, normally mean violent saboteurs as it did during the Spanish Civil War in 1936.
Reply:Here ya go pal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_colum...
Reply:To answer your question, just look in the mirror.





You're a great example of a "5th Column"





Pretending to "support the troops, but not the war" they fight.





Encouraging words for GI's to hear, knowing that ungrateful citizens back home dont support the sacrifice the GI's VOLUNTEERED to make.





/sarcasm off..





With friends like you, who needs enemies?








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Reply:its similar to the fifth columns of islam in the western countries who want to ruin it for the muslims who dont want this, and for the westerneres owning , living in and loving their own nations, and their own ways of their own personal lives.





This is a way to ruin something.
Reply:During WW2 it was the nazis (German American Bund) and afterwards the communists we had to worry about. For instance, if you've seen that Charles Bronson movie "Telefon"? It wasn't that fictional, there really were (are?) first strike attack people positioned by the former USSR to release bio/chem attacks on USA bases if the order for a "first strike" was given. Now it's "islamofacsists", the people who can't be profiled because they are perfectly law abiding, normal behaving citizens, they don't look "different" because it's about religion, not race, and they can turn at any second into a jihadist. And you can't "violate" their rights until they do something. These are the people, once they've been identified as having trained in foreign terror camps or funneling money from the USA to terrorist organizations, the democrats feel it is wrong to eavesdrop on the foreign phone calls these people make. In the stated goal of a global islamic rule, Isreal is just a nuisance, a rallying cry, the USA stands in the way and thus is a target even if we had nothing to do with the Middle East. The word we need to use, again, is "traitor" for anyone who is here with intent to harm the USA, and a rope to deal with them.
Reply:A Fifth Column is an infiltrator that is actually out to ruin what it pretends to be supporting.