If you defining the insurgency as fighting against a government then was there ever truly an insurgency in Iraq, since the government of Iraq never really controlled the country?

Maybe the time has come to accept a civil war in Iraq, at least for a while. The history of Iraq has been problematic from the start, we where unhappy with the status quo antebellum, a civil war and a fragment Iraq may not be so bad . . . all things considered. Who knows maybe in a ten-twenty years it may look like the Balkans not perfect but at least not a war zone.