"shock and awe" is another word for "terror".

And yes, you are correct, when you start wiring car bombs, you do turn from a "regular citizen" as you put it, into an "insurgent"/"terrorist".... and I say to you again, if anyone invaded the US, I would wire carbombs, or do anything else I could to become an "insurgent"/"terrorist" to get the invaders to leave. Would you do the same?

As for the numbers, yes, you have a good point that "iraqis" have been killing other "iraqis"... BUT, none of that killing would have happened had the USA not invaded.

ROBERT FISK: "War is a disgusting, cruel, vicious affair. You know, I say to people over and over again: war is not about primarily victory or defeat, it's primarily about human suffering and death. And if you look through the pictures, which I have beside me now as I speak to you, of little girls with huge wounds in the side of their faces made by the pieces of metal from cluster bombs, American cluster bombs, it's degoutant, as the French say, disgusting to even look at. But I have to look at them. I took these pictures."

Why are the Americans using illegal cluster bombs? illegal white phosphorous? Illegal torture? Why? I am ashamed of my government.

As a very wise woman once said to me: Governments make murderers of us all.