My opinion is that the "insurgency" is actually a terrorist operation. Saddam die hards are being emboldened, financed and equipped by outside forces to ensure that Iraq does not achieve a democracy.

This is concentrated in the west because of it's border with Syria and a high concentration of Sunnis whom are dominant in Syria. There is gobs of money and weapons in Syria to resupply the terrorists in the Falluja area. Some say war material was moved there before the war by Saddam. Saddam had a cozy relationship with Syria. The remains of his family is there. There was an oil pipeline running into Syria which was not on the Oil For Food books.

Whether by design or accident, The war on terrorism is going on there and not in the US where the legal system here cannot shelter them. No trial, no report to file.

If we were battling the terrorists here, What hue and cry would be coming from the anti-war protesters here? I think it would be something like "Bush failed again; Miserable failure; Catastrophic poor judgment", Etc.

People die every day from a variety of avoidable reasons. Smoking, auto accidents, accidents in US military bases. If avoidance of death is so supreme in the human list of prioritys, why aren't all causes of death given an equal emphasis?

Protesters claim if there was no invasion of Iraq, innocent people would not be dying. Based in the evil doings of the Saddam regime which people seem to have forgotten about, How many innocent people would be dying under the Saddam regime?

Protesters think only about the war as if that is the only thing happening in Iraq and refuse to acknowledge any thing positive. All the while corpses are being dug up from mass graves all over Iraq and documented in preparation for a trial of Saddam.

The war is not the only thing happening in Iraq and that war will be shorter and less severe with less loss of life without protests. It makes America look like a bunch of squabbling kids to the rest of the World. Hardly a way to earn respect.

I heard someone say on TV today that Bush got elected and he would support Bush even though he voted for Kerry. I guess that the protesters here will have names to call that person be cause he thinks differently.

Uncle Sam