the good point is the saudis are allowing democracy without the religious overtones - yes the large slice of forigen fighters in iraq are terrorists and make up a sizeable contribution
What the US needs to do is to attempt through covert intelligence ops is to start to turn the various factions against each other - they did a good start by storming fallujah
The next stage is to draw them to election targets - push ahead with the election - then enable the bombers to come out and be eliminated before they cause to much damage.