Bin laden is Saudi arabian, and trained al-qaeda in afghanistan, what does that have to do with iraq? Saddam hussein hated every other political group but his own, including al-qaeda. .I know this region, i visit iran atleast once a year for a few months each time, so when someone says there's al-qaeda in iraq (before the war) i can't help but laugh. Try saudi arabia, pakistan or afghanistan, you bombed the wrong country, y'know. After the war in 2003, al-qaeda may have slipped in to iraq to fight the US, but that wouldn't have happened if you hadn't attacked iraq. Btw, by giving saddam sattellite images, chemical weapons technology and god knows what more to fight iran, i think the US IS responsible for civilian deaths, like it or not, we still have every hospital in iran full of people who were exposed to the chemical weapons used by saddam. You said Iran was your enemy, well that would make saddam your friend. "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" was a strategy that backfired