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Originally Posted by Abcdxxxx
If they were Iraqi exiles then wouldn't that mean they were attempting to "liberate" Iraq from Saddam rather then defend the Baathist's from US occupation.
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The things I have read seemed to imply that it was more complicated than this. Yes, many hated Saddam, but at the same time despised the notion of the evil West coming to get rid of him. Other accounts in Baghdad seem to reflect the same thing.
However, I agree, it wouldn't be the first time a foreign entity has posed as a nationalist liberation front (Hizbollah being a good example, as you suggested, I think).