This is no surprise to anyone, including the Pentagon.
Included in that Pentagon report is an appraisal also of the many brave Policemen who have died, 200 at a clip every week, so the irony and the contradiction of insurgents signing up for duty is highlighted in the report.
Also the best watched television show in Iraq is the one where the Police catch the insurgent and interrogate him for what he has done to the Iraqi children, fathers and sons, brothers and sisters.
They all watch for justice.
Is the contradiction of all this transparent or is this article taken verbatim without analysis ?
Is the entire view of the Pentagon reported here?
Why would insurgents sign up to be targets ?
What is lost is the amount of bravery and hard choices made.
10 more years of Sadam with French, German and Russian help for nuclear capability, a desire that Saddam had, and who ruminated mightily his mistake in the Gulf War I was not having this capability.
Another 10 more years of Saddam money paying off the Palestinian families of dead suicide bomber children?
Can anyone be more sure of the pain avoided than the pain chosen ?
You see what you see now, what you would have seen 10 years later and most likely even more so precariously.