The U.S. and Post-War Iraq: An Analysis
Published on Thursday, May 8, 2003 by CommonDreams.org
by Stephen Zunes

There is a very real possibility that a low-level armed insurgency could develop in the coming weeks and months, not from loyalists of Saddam Hussein's regime but from ordinary Iraqis demanding self-determination and an end to the U.S. occupation. For this reason, there may be no one happier that U.S. forces have invaded and occupied Iraq than Osama bin Laden, who now has Americans where he wants them: in the heart of the Arab-Islamic world and resented by hundreds of millions of people who see this invasion as an act of imperialism.
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