IRAQ

Toronto Star: A guerrilla war takes root
Iraqis opposed to U.S. are destroying structures and services on which the population depends

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan is outraged. U.S. President George W. Bush makes his usual clumsy attempt to paint the Iraqi resistance as just another bunch of "terrorists," and to link them with some worldwide conspiracy of terrorists who attack the United States because "they hate freedom."

All the usual suspects express their shock that the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad has been bombed. And you wonder: Can they really be surprised?

To adapt Bill Clinton's famous phrase: It's a war, stupid.

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