Willravel

Well there's a reason I disagree with the above. You see leading up to the war in Iraq, Bush and Blair both stated that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. The reason we invaded was that they had weapons of mass destruction. It had nothing to do with the so called war on terror. Our issue was with the Iraq government because they supposedly had weapons of mass destruction. So we invaded, removed the government, and started to rebuild. It was only then that the issue of terrorism came up. You see, we removed the stable government of Iraq that was keeping terrorists out. If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then Iraq was an ALLY in the war on terror.

Speaking to the current conflict and assuming, for some reason, it's totally separate from the 2003 invasion and war as you are above, it's still mostly Iraqi citizens who are attacking and being attacked by the US forces. Our issue with the Iraq people is that we often treat them like shit (rape, murder, kidnapping, trespassing, torture) and they want us to get out of their country. Because of that, some of them started to fight us. The al Qaeda used that anger that was already there and have managed to get a small foothold in Iraq. The reality is that those who we are fighting in Iraq are by far more civilians in a rebellion than outside terrorist forces. Less than 5% of the forces fighting the US in Iraq are connected to al Qaeda (according to like 1000 news stories). There have been no proven connections between the rebellion in Iraq and Iran. There are Saudi fighters, but they're our ally, so we wouldn't do anything to stop that. Gotta keep that oil flowing.