"The forces on each side are well-defined, and fight each other using weapons that primarily target the opposing army."
There you go. By your own definition Iraq is NOT conventional.
I suppose you call the terrorists there "insurgents?"
Further you ignored my point about how the war was conducted. On some level it is very simple -- us or them.
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