Just as that initial invasion of Iraq was successful we should not be surprised that Saddam's loyalists are offering strong resistance to the American forces. The phrase "they have not gone away" applies to Baghdad and Iraq as much as it applies to any part of this island because the tens of thousands of people who were part of Saddam's armies and who propped up his brutal regime may have retreated during March and April but they have not gone very far. We should not have expected them to disappear. It was sadly inevitable that they would reorganise and to some degree regroup and carry on daily attacks.