. . "But as CTV's Lisa LaFlamme reports from Baghdad, those pressure tactics are also serving to terrorize civilians in Iraq, and as a result, fostering anti-American fury amongst once-supportive Iraqis.
According to David Milne of the Christian Peacemaker Team, the house-to-house searches intended to stop Iraq's simmering rebellion may be backfiring with outcomes entirely contrary to their goals.
"U.S. troops are contributing to the insurgency by their actions. They're creating more and more insurgents by the way they behave," the human rights worker told CTV News.
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Crticism was heard from one high profile voice Wednesday, when the White House's former top man in Baghdad lashed out at the decision to disband the Iraqi army.
"You're talking about around a million or more people ... that are suffering because the head of the household's out of work," providing potential recruits for the anti-U.S. insurgency, Jay Garner said.
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"winning the hearts and minds"
Don't the USA learn anything?, ever?