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Well, what most people don't realize, or forget when they get emotional about this issue, is that there are (generally speaking) two different groups involved.
There are the "normal" insurgents, who simply want to fight the US occupiers, their allies and those who they see as collaborators. It's no different from how the French Resistance used to kill Vichy French forces in WWII.
Then there is the more sinister forces at work. These are those who want to provoke a civil war. They are attacking Christians and Sunni religious leaders and places of worship. They are carrying out acts of blatant terrorism. They want to whole country to degenerate into a messy civil war as this, they believe, will hurt America in the long run and avoid a (as they see it) a puppet regime from being installed.
So the answer is yes and no. Yes, the terrorists are hurting their own people, but that's kinda what they want to do anyway. And no, the "insurgents" are not hurting their own people as they are primarily fighting the Allies and the Interim Regime.
Mr Mephisto
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