Mass media in the West largerly ignores the effectivness of Iraqi resistance against the US's highly advanced technological war machine, referring instead to dwell on inter-communal conflict between sectarian groups. But the facts. documented verified on official or reputable sites, are unmistakable for anyone who cares to seek them out.

The occupation's massive propaganda war  focusing on   complement US and UK counter-insurgency stratgeys on the ground, which actively promote a sectarian divide and rule policy. Most Iraqis in their town nad neighborhoods, however can clearly distinguish between the clandestine resistance and targets  only and their local proxies, and the criminal gangs recruited by the occupiers and their private contractors to terrorize the population and shut down street life that is the water and air of the urban national resistance. But the occupation's dismantling of civil and state institutions, and the criminality of the new occupation trained security forces, have given rise to local neighborhood vigilante groups that have proved a mixed blessing. These groups have ended up relying on the support of traditioal structures of mosque and tribe, and have at time manipulated by sectarian parties and militias, with their huge funds and access to infrastructure of occupation. As a result , some of the vigilant groups have engaged in communal conflict and have been used in criminal counter-insurgency activties, and in the propganda of occupation. But for most Iraqis, the main aim remains a nation and non-sectarian resistance to a foreign occupation. Indeed the average number of daily attacks on the occupation troops is continully rising, and by June 2007 had reached an average of 185 a day. without the direct indirect support of the Iraqi people, this level of resistance would never have been achieved

Iraqi people are aware that they a paying very high price for the expansion of the US empire, for reasons other than those declared. They percieve the real mootives behind the occupation to be the US's thirst for cheap oil, and the securing of Israel's occupation Of Palestine. A recent study survey in Iraqi attidude found "almost no Iraqis who felt the United States had invaded to liberate their country from tyranny and build dmocracy." Asked for "the three main reason for the US invasion of Iraq." fully 76 percent cited "to control Iraqi oil;" followed by "to bulid military bases" (42 percent), and "to help Israel" (32 percent). Fewer than 2 percent selected "to bring democracy to Iraq" as their first choice.

Iraqis have been on the receiving end of US-UK pledges to establish human rights in the Middle East pledges that have acquired a grotesque resonance in occupied Iraq, from the torture of detainees in the prisons of Abu Garib, Bucca in souhern Iraq, Cropper at the US military headquarter at Bagdad airport and the secret prison of the Minstries of the Interior and of Defense, to the raped deterioration of health and education services and the lack of basic infra-structure. Freedom of speech, like democracy, was strangled at brith with the systematic assassination of academics, and journalists, and the public murder of clerics.

To justify the arrest, torture and killing of journalists, and to put an end to a free press that threatened to reveal the nature and  of the crimes committed under occupation, the US admistartion accused the Iraqi media of being a resouce for the "insurgents" and "terrorists"  a resource that needed to be counter-acted and contained by all means possible. The occupation's stated objective to aid the establishment of a free press in Iraq has in fact been a mission to establish control over press freedom. The offices of Al Sharqiya Iraqi TV and of Arab TV station Bagdad such Al Arabiya and Al Jazeera, have been raided and shut down. Winning the media war has become an integral part of military stategy.

The surge of US troops, the latest miltary operation, in which occupying troops are regulary conductiing air strikes in the near population center, has resulted in increasing numbers of civilian casualties and further deterioration of the humantarin situation. Many wounded or sick people cannot safely acess hopitals and clinics.

The number of newly displaced people, both internally and abroad stands at 90,000 per month  in2007, and the number of people arrested or interned by multinational forces has increased by 49% since early 2000. The number of people held by the Iraqi authorities has also inceased signifacntly. There are over 38,000 detainees in US-UK and Irai detention centers, The ICRC is unable to gain acesss to more than 18,000of  of these inmates; Iraq vice-prsident Taeq Al Haadhemi questioned Unted Stated forces over the fate of 9,000 detainees who, according to the US army statistics, have simply "vanished from the face of the Earth." Iraqis think that many might be accounted for among the bodies of those tortured, blindfloded, and murdered that are found daily, dumped in various places across the country.

According to a referred report in medical journal The Lance, "Bringing democracy to Iraq had resulted in the death of 650,000 Iraqis by mi-2006. This is proportionally eqivalent to 7 million US citizens or 4 million British citizens. More than half of Iraq's doctors have already fled the country; Iraqi women are driven to dispair and self destruction by grief. Their expectations are reduced to pleas for help to clear the bodies of the dead from the streets, according to a report by ICRC.

It is hardly any wonder that most Iraqis approve of atttacks on US led forces, and that a strong majority wants US led militry forces to withdraw immeditly from the country, saying that their swift departure would make Iraq more secure and decrase scetarian violence.

Most  surveys and media reports seem to ignore Iraqis strong belief and that the occupatian is also targeting their national identity, cluture, history, language and religion. They ask, "How else can  you explain the destruction and looting of Iraqi museum, which houses the precious artifacts of the world's oldest civilization, as well as the 22 universities and art galleries, The Nationl Library with its unique manuscripts and historical documents, and archaeologicial sites, while US led troops either assist looters or watch from a distance? Is it any wonder that, in the minds of Iraqi people invoke comparisons with the barbarity of the Mongols when they sacked Bagdad in 1258.

The killing of academics, scientists, doctors, jounalists, singers and artists is seen as an attack on culture and learning. One recent crime is killing of Khalil al Sahawi, one oth Muslm world's leading calligraphers, who taught students from all over the Middle East. He was shot dead by gunmen in Bagdad, in late May 2007.

I seems the Iraqi people have suffered long enough it is time to stop the fighting.