Dianavan you wrote:
There were no insurgents prior to the U.S. invasion that I know of. The invasion by the U.S. created a war that increased the rate of child starvation. Do you value the attempt to democratize Iraq more than the lives of starving children?

I take it you prefer well fed slaves to hungry freedmen?

You are taking a situation in a state of rapid flux and trying to make a point about an overall situation. The facts as I have them are that the current occupation and the Iraqi government are working to repair and install a crimiinally negligent infrastructure, and the current insurgency is doing everything to prevent and reverse this. The reason there were no insurgents prior to the US invasion is that the insurgents were running the country.

You do seem to be not so much interested in the welfare of the Iraqis as in slamming US efforts whatever they be. You remind me of Reverend Lovejoy's wife whose stock refrain in any situation is: "What about the children" thus making them your debating tool rather than a real concern. If you had a real concern you would note the robust condition of the Kurds and the improved lot of the Shiites, both of whom were repressed as children, as men, as women. The Sunnis have a tougher row to hoe, as they were as a group over-entitled under the Saddam regime, and they make up a greater portion of the insurgency.