Giok, since when did Iraq have anything to do with religion?

More to the point is that the US/UK invasion has wiped out the prospects of a lot of rich, well-connected and thoroughly nasty people in the Hussein regime, so they're getting their own back. Meantime the "average" people have been stuck with unreliable (or non-existent) supplies of food, water and electricity for a long time and are understandably pissed off with the US and UK, so they won't help as much as they could.

Graham.