Dragonlich

Luckily, the nutjobs that wrote that, or agree with it, are a small minority. Most people that oppose the US on this issue aren't happy when US/UK troops are killed. They want the troops out, after all.

Interesting bit of info:

Iraqi officials say that all of the suicide bombers have been foreigners. Not a single Iraqi has blown himself up. This leads me to the following:

Iraqi "freedom fighters" are made up of
a) angry Sunnis/Ba'athists, who want their power back. They don't care about freeing the Iraqis as a whole.
b) Foreign nutjobs/terrorists who want to kill infidels. They don't care about freeing the Iraqi's, they're just another group that wants to control them.
c) criminals who want to maintain the current insecurity, so that they may profit. Not interested in freeing the Iraqis at all.
d) others who are indeed fighting the foreign oppressors in order to bring freedom to their people.

Now, does anyone care to give me their estimate of the relative size of group D? I bet it's pretty damn small, compared to the other three groups.

What you have to remember: in Islamic culture, the nation as a whole isn't important. The tribe is important, and the Islamic world as a whole is important. Remember that when you're trying to compare the sitation to people invading the US.