And I notice you keep conveniently "forgetting" that an Iraqi national named Shakir met with Al Qaeda for a 9/11 planning meeting.
And that Osama bin Laden agreed not to attack Iraq in exchange for weapons development and training.
There's way more but you have a mindset that's so ridiculous I don't know why anyone bothers arguing with you.
If you'd been around during WWII, you'd be screaming we should just go after the Japanese because, after all, Hitler didn't attack us at Pearl Harbor.
I truly think you are a descendant of Neville Chamberlain.
Many Saudi nationals were involved in the planning and execution of the plot. And many Pakistanis. And many Yemenis. And Egyptians. And so on.
The fact that a national of Iraq may have been involved in a planning meeting does not connect that state with the attacks any more than these other states. And with some of these other states, we know that government officials had both advance knowledge of the attacks and provided financial support to the planners.
That being said, regardless of how one views the Iraq-AQ ties, the ongoing military efforts in Iraq are not the same thing as the ongoing military efforts against the AQ leadership, and should not be equated with them. The goals are different, the methods are different, and the locations are different. And, given the choice between getting the leaders of the terrorists in Iraq and the leaders of the terrorists in the Afghan-Pak border region, I'll choose the latter every time.