Iraq rebirth reaches critical point

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The words were those of T.E. Lawrence — Lawrence of Arabia — writing about the British occupation of Iraq, then called Mesopotamia, in 1920. And his analysis was dead right. To repress what developed into an all-out rebellion, the British killed some 10,000 Iraqis, using tactics that included, for the first time anywhere, the terror bombing of civilians

In another instance, the commentary was equally anguished and angry. The people were "bitter, disillusioned and hopeless." The occupying forces were widely believed to be deliberately sabotaging economic recovery. The occupation itself involved the glaring hypocrisy of "attempting to eradicate militarism by means of a military regime."

The car bomb tactics are extremely skilled. The opposition's strategy is even harder to beat: Sabotage power and water lines to increase the misery and anger of ordinary Iraqis, and attack every possible target, from religious leaders to the U.N. to the police, so that defending against these attacks becomes almost impossible.

Well what is happening?
Does someone think that they may need friends?