Ive spoken extensively to a number of people on the issue. Because it interests me and because it is something close to their hearts for obvious reasons. Of course I don't claim to know definitively what is going on, but I'd wager you would get a much better idea by talking to a number of Iraqis, people who have been and live there and people who have studied their own history and know the issues in their own country. The situation is portrayed very differently than how it is in the western media. Of course they all have an agenda but I tend to believe the people who have always lived there when they tell me what the situation is really like.