Good point. But one thing you forgot to mention was that the Iraqi people were living under an oppressive murderous dictator who regularly slaughtered his own people (Kurds, mostly). Another key element: the greater majority of the people we are fighting in Iraq are not Iraqis. They are Iranian, Sudanese, Syrian, etc (this info from close friends who are working the PW prisons on the ground in Iraq).

I fully understand the point you are making here, and you're damn right I'd round up my considerable arsenal and start splittin' domes as soon as an aggressors boots hit American soil, as would everyone else in this country I think. I read somewhere that of all the guns in the world, American civilians own about 80% of them. A "Red Dawn" scenario wouldn't last long here. Everyone with a gun would be blasting away like the wild west.

The point I was trying to make with the previous comment was centered more on exposing propaganda than anything else. Too many people scream and yell about Iraqi civilian casualties without first bothering to tell their audience that the people being killed are attacking US forces (IEDs, snipers, guerilla tactios, etc).