warpus
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Elrohir said:America invaded their country, to take down a despotic regime which we believed, at the time, to be actively plotting against us with WMD. After invading, we have proceeded to set up a democratic government, and are on the way to withdrawing all of our troops. Our troops generally behave themselves and do not molest the civilians. I believe there is a difference between that, and, say, Germany invading Poland for "lebensraum".
Still, there are plenty of militias in Iraq who view the U.S. invasion as illegitimate; they are going to go after U.S. troops much like the Mujahideen fought Soviet troops in Afghanistan.
Whatever reason for your invasion doesn't matter to these guys - they view the U.S. as an enemy who has invaded their country.
I'm not siding with them, but that's just reality.