It's amazing how the examples of the behavior and tactics of the people we are fighting (a lot of which I have posted here) seem to go right over a lot of heads. Never mind what they are doing to Americans, but I'm not sure how many Iraqi citizens these insurgents have to kill off to get the idea across to you that these are not freedom fighters or the Iraqi version of "Minutemen." These are people who want to start a new tyranny and re-open the mass graves.

Stop thinking "revolt against the occupation" and start thinking along the lines of what it would have been like if bands of German SS officers had been blowing up things and attacking both Allied troops and German civilians cooperating with them after the Allied occupation of Germany.*

Would their goal have been German freedom from the occupation? Or something else?

*Note: nothing like this actually happened on this scale.