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It's not that the Iraqis are choosing the insurgents. It's that they're choosing not to actively "out" them to American forces (which they could) because:
*They don't trust us.
*They don't think we're there in their best interests
*They don't think we know what the hell we're doing
*They _know_ we can't protect them, especially those who cooperate with U.S. forces
150,000 troops cannot "occupy" a country of 20 million effectively unless the 20 million feel it's in their own best interest, and cooperate both passively (following the rules) and actively (informing about problems and proselytizing our position among themselves). That isn't happening. America hasn't convinced the Iraqis that we're there on behalf of their own best interests. Hell, America hasn't even convinced _me_ that we're there primarily for the Iraqis.
But I'd really rather believe that we were there on behalf of corrupt oil-based power politics, which I could at least understand, than because of half-baked ivory tower conservative ideology that held that we could take Iraq painlessly with just a few troops, be greeted with a rain of flowers by joyful Iraqis, and have a modern, secular democracy in place in a year in a country where they have _never voted_ and may have different ideas about how things should be done. That's scary. Saw Seymour Hersch on the Daily Show last night and he did a little talk on the groupthink mindset at the White House, and it scared the hell out of me.
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