Yak, this type of insurgency was perfectly predictable and indeed was predicted well before the invasion,by people such as Robert Fiske, a journalist who has spent many years in the ME.
Now, you tell me that the US didn't have skilled ME observers who knew exactly the same thing. Of course they did, but were they listened to? Clearly not. The Bush agenda was always invade Iraq whatever the cost and whatever the consequences. He allowed himself to be swayed by his neocon advisors and the result was never in doubt.
