Remember all the mainstream media reports about theer being only 10-12,000 insurgents, and about how their "back was broken" when U.S. invaders killed 1200 or so in Falluja? "The head of the Iraqi intelligence Service, General Muhammed Shahwani, now puts the number of insurgents across Iraq at 200,000, of whom about 40,000 are said to be the hard core and the rest active supporters."
Sunday Herald, 1/30/05. So the "march toward democracy" is either a propaganda line or has been greeted by a 15 to 20-fold increase in the number of Iraqis willing to risk their lives to wipe out the U.S.-created government.
Zarqawi's goons. Yeah, right.