You think so? I think the pre-war planners didn't think of this angle, that Iran and Saudi would play its AQ cards in Iraq to suppress democracy and keep competitive Iraqi oil production down or off-line altogether.
It's a market share strategery in a cartel market. The young jihadis are pawns.
Whether this was intended or not, it's great. Terrorists are flocking to Iraq from Iran, Yemen, Syria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia -- places we can't simply deploy troops and go after them.
And they're trying to take on the best trained, best equipped fighting force in history. Better this than their roaming about the world in search of "soft targets" like cafes and shopping malls.