That was the headline on the front page of yesterday's Austin American-Statesman ---and what a miraculously neutral, even positive, thing to proclaim. Because what does it imply in the face of all the standard-issue anti-war horseshit and pessimism? That those who have been "resisting" (i.e., murdering innocent people and our brave troops) heretofore were not the treasonous Michael Moore's "Minutemen" who were fighting for "their" country, but vermin who are standing in the way of Iraqis' progress. Plain old Iraqis. Isn't that nice to know who has the better claim to being an Iraqi? Foreign terrorists, Ba'athist losers, and psychopathic Saddamites ---or everyday citizens who want to see the rule of their country restored under democratic principles.
You don't get to be an Iraqi when you plow your car into a crowd of little kids and detonate explosives. You just get to be a subhuman sack of shit. Keep the distinction and keep on keepin' on.