"Iraq: What Went Wrong?"

Stephen Soldz pens a thorough but enlightening piece on the horrific conditions under which Iraqis have lived since WWI, up to and including the supposed executions by the current PM, Allawi, and the consequential energization of the resistance. I encourage you to read the entire article and pass it on to your friends and relatives. Here's just the conclusion:

....imagine yourself an Iraqi. You've suffered terribly under a ruthless dictator. The Americans invade your country under false pretenses. They promise democracy but don't organize elections. They appoint exiles to rule you, exiles who spend most of their time out of the country and the rest in a few highly protected areas. The occupiers break into your homes in the middle of the night and arrest your men, who then disappear, with no accountability. They shoot Iraqis at roadblocks and from convoys. They declare war on the second most popular man in the country, announcing his death in advance. They open the economy to US corporations and give them sweetheart contracts, ignoring local business. Then they write hundreds of laws and establish commissions limiting any future government. They build permanent military bases on your soil. Then they turn your country over to a former associate of Saddam Hussein, also a former CIA agent, known for his ruthless brutality. Imagine that was your country. What would you do?