It's all because of that thing in Afghanastan, you know, that Osama guy

Severe Unnatural Gas: "According to this NYT article, there are suspicions among the Iraqi's we supposedly liberated (or did we attack them to protect ourselves? I can't keep up with the latest rationale...) that the US keeps the blood flowing on purpose:"

'Some of the mourners and bystanders blamed the United States, echoing a commonly held belief among Iraqis that the American government initiates the violence to justify its occupation.'" NYT via Severe Unnatural Gas
New York TImes: Iraqi Death Toll Rises Above 100 Per Day, U.N. Says

(Despite the Iraqi's incorrect belief that we are there to initiate the violence, it does seem that we are having increasing difficulty justifying our occupation of their country.)