further evidence those inscrutable ingrates just do not appreciate their liberators: “Up to 10,000 Iraqi Shias have taken to the streets of a Baghdad suburb to denounce the US for ‘terrorism’.

The protest came during the funerals of two Shias allegedly killed by US soldiers in Sadr City on Thursday.” BBC The promise of Shiite rage at the US occupation gives new reason for fear among US troops. The government line has been that Saddam loyalists and foreign terrorists are behind the attacks on the occupiers and that the Shiites welcomed American liberation from oppression under Saddam.