well this war is the resulst of the cold war. The US hated russia som much that when the afgan people were at war with russia the US trained Bin Ladin and his men to kill the russian that we hated so much. then when we hated iran we trained and armed the iraqi army headed by husain to kill them. then when we started to dislike hussain we decided that we could get the iranians to kill the iraqis. then after all that blood has been spilled. someone realized that the us has the bigest army cause it does not use it unless it really has to. in the war following 9/11 we employed the afgan tribes to fight against the taliban. now that the us has pissed off 95% of the world we have to do it ourselves in iraq. and that is how you have todays situation.