Sadam is just a weak old man now that his regime has gone, why do you think he didnt put up a fight, because he is a frail shell of a dictator, whos final year, comprised of consolidating power through fear and the threat of war against the west. As streets says it isnt Sadam loyalists attacking the yanks, otherwise where were they when "the big man" went down, nowhere. I dont believe it is even Al-Quaeda, it is just pissed of Iraqis, Kurds, old Taliban and anyone in that region, who had a specific reason to go to Iraq, and fight in a war that did not concern them, apart from a real racial hatred of the Americans and their allies. It is they IMO who are carrying on this "gurilla war", it is only in Iraq, because that is where the allies are now. If america and britian fucked off then there would be no more violence (yes i know this is a mojor assumption), but we have to trust the Iraqis, who had one of the world highest national iqs and middle eastern GNP, before Saddam took over, to be able to govern themselves. At the moment we are no better than the bolsheviks of 1917, pretending that the only way forward is by a "dictatorship of the proletariat" and what did that become and create, the biggest murderer and dictator the world has ever seen. If we stay, then Iraq will always, no matter what their political stance is, our enemy. If we leave they could help the west out imensely, economically in the middle east, due to their large amounts of crude oil, a comodity we all need, since the increase and promise of more increase on tax of motor oil and fuel. GET OUT OF IRAQ