A recent article in the Boston Globe reported that top Bush Administration officials were warned prior to the start of the war that there would likely be guerrilla resistance after the formal combat was over. Despite numerous warnings, officials in the Bush Administration continued to assert that US soldiers would be greeted as liberators. Democracy Now! interviewed the author of the article yesterday and a transcript of the interview is available online.
Three more US soldiers were killed yesterday in Iraq, while a recent study by the Iraq Body Count Project suggests that at least 20,000 civilvians were injured in Iraq. While the United States' government seems unwilling to acknowledge the fact, it is quite likely that many of the guerrilla attacks are motivated by anti-US sentiment that has at its core rage over the killing and injuring of innocent civilians over a twelve year period by what is viewed as an occupying force.
Boston Globe: CIA Warned Administration of Postwar Guerrilla Peril
Iraq Coalition Casualty Count: Coalition Deaths in Iraq
