He was someone fighting to return Baathist totalitarian rule of a Sunni minority to Iraq.

Obviously the obscene actions of the insurgents who occupied Fallujah went right through liberal brains without effect, kind of like a dose of salts through a digestive tract, but the torture houses and testimonies of Fallujah residents made an impression on me.

Do you want those people to get Iraq back? Why or why not?

A "freedom fighter" is someone who fights for human freedom. The Nazi storm troopers were also fighting for their own nation and philosophy. Did that make them "freedom fighters?" Can we bring objective moral standards into this argument anywhere at all?

When the term "America-hater" is brought up, the result is furious indignation, so I won't bring it up here. But at the very least, some people here might want to pry their lips off the insurgency's ass.