What are the insurgents goals in Iraq?
Basically they want the US out of Iraq. Iraq is an Islamic country and perhaps they don’t want a forced democracy such as the kind the US has in mind. Honour and justice is part of their culture so it’s natural they want the invader to leave. Many of them cannot feed their families or they lost loved ones during the war. Civilians take up arms because they are fed up with the U.S.-backed government’s inability to provide basic staples like security, running water or electricity. There’s good and bad insurgency and of course there are those who have bad intent but that’s true of anywhere. What everyone forgets is the fact that this is a war Iraq did not ask for. The hard liners want control with extremist rule. Sadam was a monster and now the new monster in Iraq is perhaps worse than the last. Civilians always suffer but in the end their anger surfaces too. The US has created a living nightmare with a thousand agendas. They have underestimated terrorism and have created a breeding groun
Iraq is currently undergoing what is, in effect, a civil war, with the US and its allies directing the transformation of the country from a narcissistic military dictatorship to a form of government they feel better satisfies their regional goals. As part of this process they support certain political-military factions and the establishment of a specific form of government within Iraq (i.e., a semi-independent client state with a form of democratic government that is able to satisfy, contain, or suppress their opponents politically and/or militarily). There are numerous factions taking part in this civil war, including groups that want to establish an Islamic state of one form or another (e.g., Sunnis, Shi’ites); groups supporting the former Ba’athist government (e.g., Hussein’s half-brother al-Hassan, former aide al-Ahmed); groups supporting specific ethnic peoples, including those who wish to divide the country into ethnic regions (e.g., Kurds); and groups that pursue other governmen
