Originally Posted by directfiesta

During the french resistance of occupation ( WW2 ), the resistance was attacking the germans and their collaborators, not the civil population.

This is not anymore a resistance of occupation. This is a civil war between the Shiites and the Sunnis, and the Kurds could eventually join in....

You would remove the occupation forces of Iraq, and this violence would still go on, till they do resolve their differences, if that is possible.

IT IS A CIVIL WAR!