"...chose to send a personal message to the person..."

Well, GUEST, if you were a member, you could have sent Teribus a Personal Message through the PM facility. And you wouldn't risk being mixed up with some of the other strange people who post as GUEST.

"Occupation and what they now like to call "nation building" begins when active combat has not ended."

And is there any reason to believe that will ever take place, taking it to mean that, so long as there are people shooting at the foreign soldiers, it still constitutes active combat? Especially once Saddam is finally out of the picture, and there is no reason for anyone to think perhaps the US and UK soldiers are keeping him at bay. I would anticipate that armed resistance/terrorism/guerrilla warfare, call it what you will, is likely to grow with time.