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The power vacuum was opened up there after the toppling of Saddam and this is the result. It's the same story across a lot of the Middle East really, countries which are melting pots of different ethnic/religious/political tensions which are just waiting to boil over. As brutal as a lot of Middle Eastern dictators are they were also the only things keeping a lid on those tensions, so we now have had civil wars in Syria and Libya, Egypt has seen a lot of bloodshed and power struggles, and now Iraq is going the same way. A lot of people realised this would be the product of an ill thought out invasion back in 2003; the men in charge didn't listen.