Common Sense beats Military Inteligence any day.
Thanks to Ashleigh (who's keeping up The Little Red Cookbook while Jen's away) for pointing out this article for me to comment on. A few choice quotes from it:

--"Few people believe that the resistance in that country is being coordinated by Saddam Hussein and his noxious family, or that it will come to an end when those people are killed. But the few appear to include the military and civilian command of the United States armed forces. "--

If we kill some of them, the others will lose their fighting spirit. Let's see...this theory, in the course of history, has worked approsimately ZERO times. Or course, it's having the opposite effect. This is one of the worst things about the war in Iraq (at least for Americans): with each Iraqi killed, each assasination result aired on TV, we make more enemies. For those willing to look at history, the evidence is clear: in 1986, Reagan bombed Libya and killed a "small number" of Libyans, including Quadaffi's daughter. Two years later, Libyan agents blew up the Pan Am flight over Lockerby, Scottland. The predominantly Saudi group that executed the September 2001 attacks on the US openly cited US actions in their country in 1991 as the rationale for their attacks. Every action creates a reaction...it's not just a line from the Matrix Reloaded, and it's not just a law of Physics...it's true in Geopolitics, too.

--"For the hundredth time since the U.S. invaded Iraq, the predictions made by those with access to intelligence have proved less reliable than the predictions made by those without."--

Indeed. Once again, in other words, common sense beats the "intelligence" of the military war-mongers. I have very little faith in the average American any more, but even this lack of common sense (meaning that shown by anyone actually buying into W's propoganda) baffles me. I would think that Americans, with all their gung-ho, gun-slinging, revenge-minded bravado, would understand this point best of all. If someone comes into your home and kills your family, is that going to make you roll over and comply with their demands, or are you going to spend the rest of your life trying to kill them? Which is more likely?
Here's a hint...go watch "The Patriot" with Mel Gibson, see how the all-American hero acts when his sons are killed, and then ask yourself why we're expected to beleive Iraqis won't react the same way.