And anyway, for pity’s sake-we weren’t fighting the Iraqis, we were fighting “for” them if anything (besides our primary objective, which is to secure America from terrorists, and those who support them). And before anyone says it wasn’t only Saddam, just look at all the grief we’ve gotten from getting rid of him and fighting the terrorists there-how in the world could we be expected, given that, to take on every instance of terrorist support anywhere? It would be like trying to fight WW3, with America vs The World. It’s already been something like that, and we’ve only been in one country (for our own purposes, I mean, not a UN-trumped-up wag-the-dog “war”)
When my battalion was near Baghdad, we were fighting the Iraqis. The majority of the Iraqis helped us, but some of the Iraqis wanted to kill us.