My point, beardedbruce, is that some people don't agree with the premise that the US has any right to be in Iraq as an occupying power in the first place. And without that right, there is no mandate from the UN for putting down insurgencies or doing anthing else, for that matter. I know you and I have hashed that one out a time or two, and I know you are not one of the people who see things in that way, but that is how some people look at it. And for those who do, the blood of the families who were killed by US forces in Fallujah is entirely on the hands of the US government.

I'll check out the stuff in your links, though.