Those Iraqis that were not in with Saddam and his military suffered under suppression for 30 years. I don't know about you but I did not expect these people to put up too much of a fight if any.
I remember last year reading stories like mothers hiding their grown sons from Saddam in holes in the ground for years, men with their ears and other body parts missing because they looked at Uday or Qusay wrong.
Fortunately we have services here in the US that where the suppressed, abused, depressed can find aid, but these Iraqis have known.
I wish that they would rise up (women, men and all) and fight back. But they have gone from one extreme (Saddam and his goons) to another (Zarqawi and his beheading butchers).