The insurgents are like me and you. They defend their homeland. The foreign occupiers insult them, shoot up mosques, steal their oil, shoot up hospitals and leave cancer-causing radioactive pieces of ammunition lying all over the place. The citizens have little electricity, clean water, medicine, food, oil and, most of all, security. At any time they could be shot by a soldier, a criminal or an Iraqi policeman. Ever been jailed for something unjust? Harassed by a cop? Had a vehicle-mounted machinegun pointed at your head?

I dont know about you, but I get really pissed off when a cop pats me down, feels my crotch and thinks he can do whatever he wants because he represents the law and has a gun. Imagine a whole army doing that in your country. Imagine jets screaming overhead, never knowing when a bomb is going to drop next to you. Imagine watching your child being blown apart. Imagine riding in a car and getting killed by a couple of 20-year-olds manning a barricade. How many of you would fight back? I mean, what are you going to do, just submit to all of the humiliation, death and rape of your country?