First, let's call the WE secular socialists by their religious name to level the playing field...atheists. So the struggle is between the Muslims, the Judeo-Christians, and the Atheists, with Iraq acting as the lynchpin that is allying the Atheists and Muslims against Israel and America et al. This is why Iraq is so contested. It unites the efforts of the world against us, eerily Biblical in its' implications. Iraq holds much of the oil that will finance the socialists and atheists for the struggle, and cannot be ceded to the Alliance.
If this seems fantastic to you consider the recent words of "Osama Bin Laden"...
It is not harmful in such conditions for the Muslims' interests and socialists' interests to come along with each other during the war against the crusade, without changing our faith and our declaration that socialists are infidels. Socialists' leadership had fallen down a long time ago. Socialists are infidels wherever they are, either in Baghdad or Aden. Such war which may take place these days is similar to the war between Muslims and Romans when the interests of the Muslims came along with the interests of the Persians who both fought against the Romans.