Pilger: "Even now, as the uprising spreads, there is only cryptic gesturing at the obvious: that this is a war of national liberation and that the enemy is 'us'. The pro-invasion Sydney Morning Herald is typical. Having expressed 'surprise' at the uniting of Shias and Sunnis, the paper's Baghdad correspondent recently described 'how GI bullies are making enemies of their Iraqi friends' and how he and his driver had been threatened by Americans. 'I'll take you out quick as a flash, motherfucker!' a soldier told the reporter. That this was merely a glimpse of the terror and humiliation that Iraqis have to suffer every day in their own country was not made clear; yet this newspaper has published image after unctuous image of mournful American soldiers, inviting sympathy for an invader who has 'taken out' thousands of innocent men, women and children."