This is where I don't bother reposting the graph of insurgent attacks for the third time clearly showing that 75% of reported attacks are still against the occupation forces. Fucksake.
That may well be true, if you're talking about the number of attacks: I'm talking about the number of
victims. On the basis that an armoured personal carrier is less vulnerable to explosives than, say, a marketplace full of women or a bunch of kids on a school bus, i.e. one or two injured marines vs. 50 people lying in bits on the ground...
Edit: from Wiki -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_Body_Count_project
Who did the killing?
* 37%. US-led forces killed 37% of civilian victims.
* 9%. Anti-occupation forces/insurgents killed 9% of civilian victims.
* 36%. Post-invasion criminal violence accounted for 36% of all deaths.
* 11%. Unknown agents (11%).
So more or less equal numbers of deaths due to Coallition military action and crime, with almost a tenth of
Iraqi civilian deaths due to the Insurgence.
and what exactly is the point you want to make with this?
My point, which I'd have thought was pretty obvious, was that it's idiotic to blind yourself to the brutal sectarian civil war raging in Iraq at the moment (which of course would not be happening now if the invasion hadn't happened - there'd 'merely' be Saddam's horrific tyranny instead) and kid yourself that all military action being taken by Iraqis is directed at the occupying troops, and therefore to be cheered on, let alone that much of isn't 'military action' at all but terrorism aimed at members of rival religious/ethnic/political groups.