Was watching a recent TV doco on the Kurds trying to gather evidence on the butchery of many Kurds by Saddam in the 80s - evidence to be used in his 'trial'. They had to travel thru areas 'controlled' by dangerous 'insurgents'. They (including Govt Ministers - yes those in favour with George!) were moving along the highway at 160Km/hr.

Suddenly, there was great panic - they had sighted a US 'patrol'. They now had to drop back to 40 km an hour, and knew from experience that if they accidentally got within 100 metres (and they DARE NOT even TRY to pass the 'patrol'), they would be hosed away by US gunfire.

These are the very people George and his w*nkers are 'helping', and George has carefully designed the 'occupation' to scare the shit out of those he is 'protecting'... like in Vietnam...

Interesting that there are many 'conspiracy' claims that the CIA and Mossad are butchering many left right and centre... starting with the intellectuals... Hmmmm, didn't that game get played in Russia (by both Hitler & Stalin), and China, and Vietnam, etc....

The whole reason that the Russians left Afghanistan was because they finally woke up that their tactics similar to what the US is using in Iraq were only generating dead bodies on all sides. I really doubt that the US 'leaders' are THAT smart...